Re: [SMARTY-DEV] Running two different Smarties on a single page

--- Ivo Jansch <ivo@ibuildings.nl> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi all, > > we've been trying to integrate the Serendipity (s9y)weblog into one > of > our CMS systems. This went quite smooth, as s9y has an 'embed' > feature > for embedding it into applications. > > There was one particularly annoying thing though, that made us hack > the > software quite a bit. It was related to Smarty, so I'm posting it > here > to see if there is a nice solution. > > Our CMS system uses Smarty. The latest release uses 2.6.something, > but > the release where s9y needed to be integrated in used a slightly > older > version (2.4.something I believe). s9y itself uses 2.6 though. 2.6 > and > 2.4 are not compatible, so in fact for rendering a page in the CMS, > both > 2.4 and 2.6 are used. > > I had to tweak a bit: first I had to rename the Smarty class to > Smarty2 > to avoid class name conflicts. This was easypeasy. > > But then we got into major troubles due to the paths. The > SMARTY_CORE_DIR and SMARTY_DIR defines were not correct, because > there > can only be one define. I ended up replacing every SMARTY_DIR and > SMARTY_CORE_DIR occurance with a different define. > > Is there a cleaner way around this? Maybe if just member variables > would > be used instead of global defines, it would be easier to instantiate > multiple different smarties. Its still not that easy. The plugins, for example are generally global functions so only one version of a plugin can be loaded at any time. > Any ideas? Upgrade the version of Smarty that the CMS uses? It may be easier than trying to get true side-by-side working. I wonder if you can spawn a separate process by separating the two and accessing S9y from a http include? Even if you could, it sounds like a bad solution. Another idea like this is to fake it, err, I mean simulate it -- use an emdedded iframe in your document that does a separate request for the S9y content. > Greetings, > Ivo ______________________________________________________ Click here to donate to the Hurricane Katrina relief effort. http://store.yahoo.com/redcross-donate3/