A better way of registering a block tags?

[mahjong]

Hi. I'm running CMS Made Simple 0.13 Canary.

I wanted to register a block tag :

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{my_tag} ... {\my_tag}

CMS Made Simple doesn't seem to be designed to accept them natively. There is no hook like for function tags. So, I've modified the source code of lib\content.functions.php. I've added the block type in the plugins registering loop :

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Near line 671 : 
  $types=array('function','compiler','prefilter','postfilter','outputfilter','modifier','block');

Near line 710 :
  case 6: $smarty->register_block($file, "smarty_cms_block_" . $file); break;

Now, I can create block.my_tag.php in the plugin folder, the same way as for regular function tags, function.my_tag.php. I works, but on next update of CMS Made Simple, I'll to edit once again lib\content.functions.php.

Is there a better way of registering block tags, without hacking CMS's core? Maybe with a module?

[Ted]

This is a reasonable change.  I'm just going to commit it into svn and it'll be in the next release. 

Thanks!

[mahjong]

Wow! Thank you.

[Ryno]

Hey guys,

Sounds really interesting but I have no idea what you both are talking about?

Can one of you give an example of when you'd need a block tag, as well as what a block tag is?

Sorry, I'm still learning my Smarty ABC's...

Ryno

[Ted]

Say you want a tag that does something on a block of text.  Like, {literal}whole bunch of stuff that should be escaped{/literal}.  http://smarty.php.net/manual/en/plugins ... ctions.php

Keep in mind that this isn't user defined tags in the admin, but tags created in the /plugins directory.