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Hasin Hayder

Smarty Cheat Sheet for Template Designers

hasin@somewherein.net

Logic

Loop

Initializing Smarty

Directory Structure

include(”smarty/Smarty.class.php”);

- your_script_folder

{if $var == condition}

$smarty = new smarty();

| - smarty

{section name=id loop=$variable}

| | + libs

something to do

element : {$variable[id]}

| | Smarty.class.php

{elseif $var == condition}

Assigning Variables

{/section}

| - templates

something to do

| | greet.tpl

{else}

| + templates_c

[must be 0777]

General Format

{foreach item=curItem from=$items}

$smarty->assign(”var”,”value”);

| + configs

something else to do

element : {$curItem}

Example

| my_other_scripts.php

{/if }

$smarty->assign(”who”, “world”);

{/foreach}

| blah_blah_script.php

Sample Template

Processing objects

Common Modifiers

Filename : templates\greet.tpl

Access Object Methods

Hello {$who}

{object->method

param1=”val”

capitalize, count_characters, cat, count_paragraphs,

Display Output

param2=”val”}

count_sentences,count_words, date_format, default, escape, indent,

lower, nl2br, regex_replace, replace, spacify, string_format, strip,

Accesing Object Properties

$smarty->display(”greet.tpl”);

{object->property}

strip_tags, truncate, upper, wordwrap

Debugging templates

Assign method output to variable

Builtin Functions

{object->method

Add this line at the top

param1=”val”

{debug}

param2=”val”}

assign=”storage_var”}

Capturing output in php variable

capture, config_load, foreach, foreachelse, include, include_php, insert

Output: {$storage_var}

if, elseif, else, ldelim, rdelim, literal, php, section, sectionelse, strip

Use Fetch() function

$output =

Passing objects to template

Custom Functions

$smarty->fetch(”greet.tpl”);

echo $output;

$my_class=new my_object();

$smarty->register_object(

“object”, $my_class);

Processing indexed array

assign, counter, cycle, debug, eval, fetch, html_checkboxes, html_image

html_options, html_radios, html_select_date, html_select_time

Using modifiers

{section name=id loop=$array}

html_table, math, mailto, popup_init, popup, textformat

Current Item : {$array[id]}<br/>

{/section}

General Format

Smarty reserved variables

{$variable | modifier:parameter}

Processing associated array

Example

{$name|count_characters}

$smarty.now

$smarty.version

$smarty.get

{student.name}

{student.roll}

$smarty.const

$smarty.ldelim

$smarty.post

Execute PHP inside template

{$student.age}

$smarty.capture

$smarty.rdelim

$smarty.session

$smarty.config

$smarty.session

{php}

Passing associated array

for($i=0;$i<10;$i++)

$smarty.section

$smarty.env

echo “Hello”;

$smarty.foreach

$smarty.request

$student=array(”name”=>”shumi”);

{/php}

$smarty->assign(”student”,$std);

$smarty.template

$smarty.env

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