John W. Holmes said:
> From: "Chris de Vidal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Kelly Hallman said:
>> > Going even one step further (the beauty of Smarty: always another
> level),
>> > just extend the Smarty object itself. Then, instead of making all your
>> > templates includes other templates (such as a header or a footer), you
> can
>> > make your overall page be a template, and the extended Smarty object
>> can
>> > be given extra functionality to control the page:
>> >
>> > {* MyPage.tpl -- Smarty template for the entire page *}
>> > ...header...
>> > {include file=$content}
>> > ...footer...
>> >
>> > // mypage.php -- extended Smarty object
>> > class MyPage extends Smarty {
>> > var $tmpl = 'MyPage.tpl';
>> > function render($x) {
>> > $this->assign('content',$x);
>> > $this->display($this->tmpl); } }
>> >
>> > // actualphpcode.php -- called by the browser
>> > $pt = new MyPage;
>> > $pt->render('pagecontent.tpl');
>>
>> Sorry, I'm feeling better now but still don't understand what you're
>> telling me/us. Could you please expound? What functionality does this
>> afford?
>
> If I can take first shot, since this was posted to the list... :)
No!!! Well, OK. :)
> It's basically a wrapper around Smarty to automatically load the
> header-content-footer template and dynamically fill in the content based
> on what's passed to render. So, displaying all of your different pages
> would be as simple as:
>
> $pt = new MyPage;
> $pt->render('contact.tpl');
>
> $pt ->render('prices.tpl');
>
> $pt->render('index.tpl');
>
> etc... The "wrapper" automatically loads the "master" template with the
> header and footer, and then replaces the {content} tag with the content of
> the appropriate template that render() was passed.
>
> Just one method of many. If I'm interpreting it right, that is. :)
Ahh OK, that makes sense, 'cept now you've introduced new confusion
(sorry, I must be dense today). What's with loading all of your pages
(contact/prices/index) in one page?
Or are you saying:
$pt = new MyPage;
$pt->render('contact.tpl');
OR
$pt = new MyPage;
$pt ->render('prices.tpl');
OR
$pt = new MyPage;
$pt->render('index.tpl');
I can see the benefit of this method if that's what you mean.
Thanks for helping clarify it,
/dev/idal
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