Integrating PHP into menu templates

[ahmednuaman]

Hey,

I've been doing some reading up on Smarty tags and I understand that you can use them like:

{php} some php code {/php}

However, how can I take {$node->accesskey} and feed that var into a php smarty tag?

[Nullig]

it's probably better to use a UDT, which can have params passed to it.

Read about them here:

http://wiki.cmsmadesimple.org/index.php ... fined_Tags

Nullig

[calguy1000]

check out smarty.php.net/manual/en


there's a function in smarty called get_template_vars

[ahmednuaman]

check out smarty.php.net/manual/en; there's a function in smarty called get_template_vars

Cool, had a read of that, but how would I use it? $node->get_template_vars?

[alby]

check out smarty.php.net/manual/en; there's a function in smarty called get_template_vars

Cool, had a read of that, but how would I use it? $node->get_template_vars?

No, use:
{get_template_vars}

This stamp all note smarty variables.
If there are Array variables, you can check with:
{$your_array|print_r}

Alby

[calguy1000]

in php code you would:

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global $gCms;
$smarty =& $gCms->GetSmarty();
$myvar = $smarty->get_template_vars('myvar');

[ahmednuaman]

Ok, what if the var is:

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$node->hierarchy

[calguy1000]

$node = $smarty->get_template_vars('node');
print_r( $node );

[ahmednuaman]

Cool thanks!

[xnau]

This is all very helpful to me right now--I'm creating a user-defined tag...but there's something maddengly basic about getting to the values of the array I'm not getting here. I'm using this test code:

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$node = $smarty->get_template_vars('node');
print_r($node);
echo $node['menutext'];

I get the array dump, but I get nothing for the array value after that. I've looked into the php syntax and it all seems right...so could someone clue me on what I'm doing wrong thanks.

[calguy1000]

have you tried

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echo $node->menutext;

if $node is an object (you can test with is_object  )
then the array syntax may give you grief.

See also: is_array

[xnau]

Yes--that's it. I learn so much in this forum!

thanks!

[Dr.CSS]

[solved] ?