Re: [SMARTY-DEV] Re: Incorrect newline counters

Greg Stark wrote:

messju mohr <messju@lammfellpuschen.de> writes: I just wanted to say that hardly anybody seems to care about the fact that line-numbers in source templates don't correspond to line-numbers in compiled templates. Really? I suspect if you ask your users you'll find a lot of griping about this. It's really a headache that virtually any typo in a smarty template produces an error that can only be debugged by opening up an unreadable compiled template to figure out where the error actually happened.

Just to offer a counterpoint, I rarely care about correspondance between line numbers in Smarty templates and the resulting PHP files. Yes, it would be convenient but there have only been very rare occasions where I had to dig into the generated PHP to understand a problem. Many Smarty issues are caught during the compile phase, and it will tell me the exact line in the template where the failure is. I very rarely have problems beyond that. Most of my Smarty work has been on a single application which is about 13.5K lines of .tpl files. -Bharat