Re: [SMARTY-DEV] Preprocessing string concatenations

Concatenating strings in the templates is on the TODO list. We just need to figure out the best approach. On Fri, 19 Jul 2002, Bob Silva wrote: > Not sure if this is in the realm of Smarty processing or application design > but heres something to consider. > > Lets say we have an array where each element is named sequentially, but not > necessarily sequential in the collection: > $array1['name1'] = 'blah'; > $array1['name3'] = 'balh'; > $array1['name2'] = 'balh'; etc.... > > Lets say we also have another collection that correlates: > $array2['address3'] = 'blah'; > $array2['address1'] = 'blah'; etc... > > Nested variable parsing within smarty would be a very useful feature: > > {section name='person' loop=$array1} > Name: {$array1['name'.$person]} > Address: {$array2['address'.$person]} > {/section} > > Thats a simple example not based on real life at all. We are currently > converting Bravenet over to > a new Application Framework which uses smarty as its template engine so > changing the data model > isnt really an option. Heres a real life example of a loop we perform in our > guestbook to display > the entrys for the guestbook that I was not able to do directly within > smarty. The $options array > is the user defined question and the $entry array is the answer to the > question. The user can define > 13 questions (within $options). Both $options and $entry have other keys > defined so a straight loop > of the elements wouldnt work. Eventually I just broke the loops apart and > duplicated the code 13 > and hardcoded the key names. > > for ( $i=2; $i<16; $i++ ) { > echo > > '<tr><td>'.$options["ql".$i].'</td><td>'.$entry["q".$i]).'</td></tr>'; > } > > Not sure if its possible or reasonable to add such a thing to the smarty > compiler (nested varaible pasring) > but it would be useful to all smarty users. > > Bob Silva > Senior Developer > Bravenet.com > > > > -- > Smarty Development Mailing List (http://smarty.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -Andrei http://www.gravitonic.com/ "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler." -- Albert Einstein