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HTML Entities with Smarty Modifiers

{$variable|html_entities}

Accessing CMSMS Variables from Smarty

{$gCms} is available so {$gCms->config.root_url}  NOTE: this is for pre 1.10 versions

PHP within Smarty

See: PHP Smarty Functions

calguy1000: you can call php from smarty
elijahlofgren: turned off by default though, right?
calguy1000: no
calguy1000: empty($variable) is a php function
- I'd even try html_entities($variable) and see if that worked
- i.e: {","|implode:$some_array} works

elijahlofgren: {if htmlentities("<test>")}
elijahlofgren: You're right, it works{/if}
elijahlofgren: ah, modifier you meant :)

calguy1000: to call a php function the rule is.... if the function only needs one argument, just call it... if it needs two or more treat as a modifier (I think)
that's nice because it allows you to do so much more for customizing the display of your page
but the rule should be, seperate logic into 'php' files... and display into .tpl files
so when coding, you just gotta remember

Debugging Smarty

Use {debug} when debugging smarty templates!!! Very useful!! See: http://www.smarty.net/manual/en/language.function.debug.php

Dumping variables

To get a var dump of a smarty object or variable, do something like this: {$var|print_r}Read more on Smarty debugging

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From: #cms on irc.freenode.net on June 21, 2008
(03:19:01 PM) elijahlofgren: calguy1000: e.g. News title in page title? 
(03:19:11 PM) calguy1000: elijahlofgren: 1.4 makes that easy
(03:19:35 PM) calguy1000: when processing a page template now we split apart 
                          the head from the body.... 
                          push the body through smarty first, 
                          then the head then output $head.$body
(03:19:49 PM) calguy1000: so you can set any smarty variable in any detail template,
                          and use it in the head
(03:20:05 PM) calguy1000: or in content, or in a summar template... blah blah
(03:22:06 PM) calguy1000: so now in a news detail template you can simply do a 
      
                          {assign var='mytitle' value=$entry->title}
       
(03:22:44 PM) calguy1000: then in your head.... 
        
                          {if isset($mytitle)}
                              <title>{$mytitle}</title>
                          {else}
                              <title>{title} -  {sitename}</title>
                          {/if}
       
(03:25:43 PM) calguy1000: and module template modification times are cached in 
                          memory now.... 
                          so it's alot faster to load  module templates
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