Home » HTML » HTML_Template_Flexy » Bug #1974

[2004-07-24 19:33 UTC] aemadrid at gmail dot com

Description:
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Would you consider adding support for IF conditions like x=="a"? It could have a syntax like flexy:if="x:#a#"? It is kind of cumbersome to create switch case conditions with only simple true/false conditions like flexy:if="x" or flexy:if="!x" as it stands right now.

[2004-09-11 13:55 UTC] bat at flurf dot net

I figured out a way to do this. Suppose you want something like this (remembering that string literals are enclosed in #hashes#:

{if:user=#root#}<a href="...">Admin</a>{end:}

This syntax isn't supported. My solution is to add to your object a function like this:

function equal($x,$y) { return $x == $y; }

and then, instead of the above (illegal) syntax, use this:

{if:equal(user,#root#)}...<a href="...">Admin</a>{end:}

Works perfectly!

[2004-09-13 16:56 UTC] aemadrid at gmail dot com

Good thinking! Simple and effective. Thanks for the tip.

[2004-09-15 06:07 UTC] bat at flurf dot net

This trick is pretty powerful, actually. You want to have your template include other templates? Put something like this in the template html:

{includeTemplate(#froggy.html#)}

... and something like this in your object definition:

function includeTemplate($filename)
{
$content = new HTML_Template_Flexy(/* options... */);
$content->compile($filename);
return $content->bufferedOutputObject($this);
}

It works flawlessly!