Re: [PHP Template] Repeating values

I think it would be a useful feature. However now you are starting to get into the area of collation. Previously I worked with a template language that had several options for collating multiple lists. It gets a bit tricky.... ;-) -dan Andrei Zmievski wrote: > Right now the spec mentions the following: > > * repeat = yes/no > repeat the last value of the variable inside the section loop > if the other variables have more values, if not specified, > defaults to yes > > I'm wondering if it should be extended to allow either repeating of the > last value the variable has, or of the default value. Example: > > {{ section sec1 }} > {{ $foo default="green" repeat=yes }}, {{ $bar }} > {{/section sec1 }} > > If $foo has 2 values ("red" and "blue"), and $bar has 4 values > ("small", > "medium", "large", "x-large"), then "blue" will be > repeated: > > red, small > blue, medium > blue, large, > blue, x-large > > If we specify repeat=default, though, it would do: > > red, small > blue, medium > green, large > green, x-large > > Would this be a useful behavior or not? > > -Andrei > > Any sufficiently advanced Operating System > is indistinguishable from Linux. > - Jim Dennis > > -- > PHP Template Engine Mailing List > Current engine specification can be found at: > http://va.php.net/~andrei/tpl-engine-spec.txt > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php4beta-unsubscribe@lists.php.net