content shuffling across templates.

Jason Hines <[email protected]> Sun, 18 Apr 2004 04:05:34 -0400

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.php.smarty.devel
Organization	devtwo
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Hi.  I am working with a framework which uses Smarty in a nested fashion 
similiar to this example:

Top.tpl
   |- Sidebar.tpl
   |- Navigation.tpl
   |- Content.tpl
   |  `- Form.tpl
   |     |- TextInput.tpl
   |     |- TextInput.tpl
   |     `- SubmitInput.tpl
   `- Copyright.tpl

Each template is handled by individual "nodes" (PHP) in a 
heirarchy-style rendering.  The Top.tpl is rendered last, which contains 
the <head> and <body> tags in HTML.

My question is this.  I am attempting to make it possible so that 
templates can "push" a block on content to a designated area (such as 
HEAD or BODY).  I've been toying around with outputfilters and plugins 
giving the ability for templates to do:

{resource id="someID" area="HEAD"}
<style>
// some style i want pushed to <head>
</style>
{/resource}

So this block function will assign the content to a static array.

So then in the Top.tpl, I do:

{outputresources area="HEAD"}

This function will print a "token" (md5($area)) in this place, and then 
an outputfilter will str_replace() this token for the actual content.

This works, but is quirky in some cases (and quite expensive) - and I'm 
wondering if others have attempted to do this same thing.

jason

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