Re: [SMARTY-DEV] Block/Section (in trad. sense) function needed?

On Sat, 04 May 2002, Peter Bowyer wrote: > Hi, > > Just another example I came across in my work today :-) > > Currently for Smarty I have the following in one of my templates (this is > only a small section of it): > {if $data[i].fax} > <strong>Fax: </strong> {$data[i].fax} &nbsp; > {/if} > {if $data[i].email} > <strong>Email: </strong><a > > href="mailto:{$data[i].email}">{$data[i].email}</a> > {/if} > > Now, wouldn't it be a lot cleaner with the traditional style of block as > proposed in my last email? The designer no longer has to worry whether > $data[i].xx is set or not: > {block name="fax"} > <strong>Fax: </strong> {$data[i].fax} &nbsp; > {/block} > {block name=email} > <strong>Email: </strong><a > > href="mailto:{$data[i].email}">{$data[i].email}</a> > {/block} > > And now it is up to the programmer to check if the element of the array is > empty and if so to delete the block, which provides a bit more separation > of the design from the logic. So? {section name="fax" show="$fax_show"} <strong>Fax: </strong> {$data[i].fax} &nbsp; {/section} {section name="email" show="$email_show"} <strong>Email: </strong><a href="mailto:{$data[i].email}">{$data[i].email}</a> {/section} And in php you assign $fax_show and $email_show. But I still think things like that are better done in templates. -Andrei