Re: [SMARTY-DEV] variable catenation

Hi Monte, Not that uncommon to see "before" & $after And a concatenation operator only an oracle sql coder could love :) "before" || $after Jason ----- Original Message ----- From: "Monte Ohrt" <monte@ispi.net> To: "Smarty Dev" <smarty-dev@lists.php.net> Sent: Friday, February 21, 2003 12:13 PM Subject: [SMARTY-DEV] variable catenation > I've been playing with variable catenation to see if it is even > possible, and there are some problems. > > First, I was trying to resolve it for function attributes: > > {foobar foo=foo."bar" foo=$foo.$bar foo=$foo.bar} > > You can see there is a conflict of what "." means. Is $foo.bar a > catenated value or an associative array? is $foo.$bar catenated or > dynamic associative array? > > So then I decided to try "+" instead of ".", much like the javascript > way of catenating strings. > > {foobar foo=foo+"bar" foo=$foo+bar foo="foo"+"bar"} > > Everything seems to work OK (even embedded + in quotes works as > expected), you just can't put spaces around the + signs or else it is > unclear where the next attribute starts. > > So, now moving on to IF statments. > > {if $foo+bar eq "blah" and 1+2=3} > > Another conflict, is + a string catenation operator or a math operator? > > I'd kind of like to stick to the PHP way of doing things with ".", > except for the syntax conflicts... unless someone comes up with a good > solution. Ideas? > > Othewise we go with the clunky cat modifier. > > > Monte > > > -- > Smarty Development Mailing List (http://smarty.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >