Re: [SMARTY-DEV] block functions

On Thu, 04 Apr 2002, Andreas Kossmeier wrote: > is there another way using the current functionality? Not really. Block functions work at run-time, not compile-time. > this would be the other way of doing it, but how should this eval() for > the body work without losing the built-in compilation process of smarty? > > IMO a possible function called before compilation can do a lot, without > influencing the compiling process of smarty. > > maybe there is a better solution for that. Yes, compiler-block-functions. Much more work for compiler to do though (keeping track of nested code blocks) and so on. But possible. The compiler-block-function will need to output appropriate PHP code to loop its content, Smarty won't do it for you. -Andrei * Change is the only constant. *