Conditional Template - Smarty and Arrays

[tobre]

I would like to conditionally hide elements in a template based on whether or not a page-alias is in a predefined array, like so...

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{if (in_array($page_alias,$someArray))}
  show this
{/if}

My problem is: How and where would I best define that array?

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$someArray=array( 'alias1', 'alias2', 'alias3','alias4' );

--- addendum ---
How is working with arrays in templates not a valid topic for the development discussions board?

[kermit]

the most basic solution would be a udt....

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// assignarray
global $gCms;
$myArray = array("index","do-dads","gizmos","some-other-page");
$smarty->assign('alternatelayout',$myArray);

you could get fancy and pass a parameter containing page aliases to populate the array.. i'll leave that up to you.

then in your template or page data:

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{assignarray}

followed by the smarty logic

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{if in_array($page_alias,$alternatelayout)}
 do this or show that
{else}
 otherwise do this instead
{/if}

to examine the array contents in smarty use

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{$alternatelayout|@print_r}