Running two different Smarties on a single page

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Hi all,

we've been trying to integrate the Serendipity (s9y)weblog into one of
our CMS systems. This went quite smooth, as s9y has an 'embed' feature
for embedding it into applications.

There was one particularly annoying thing though, that made us hack the
software quite a bit. It was related to Smarty, so I'm posting it here
to see if there is a nice solution.

Our CMS system uses Smarty. The latest release uses 2.6.something, but
the release where s9y needed to be integrated in used a slightly older
version (2.4.something I believe). s9y itself uses 2.6 though. 2.6 and
2.4 are not compatible, so in fact for rendering a page in the CMS, both
2.4 and 2.6 are used.

I had to tweak a bit: first I had to rename the Smarty class to Smarty2
to avoid class name conflicts. This was easypeasy.

But then we got into major troubles due to the paths. The
SMARTY_CORE_DIR and SMARTY_DIR defines were not correct, because there
can only be one define. I ended up replacing every SMARTY_DIR and
SMARTY_CORE_DIR occurance with a different define.

Is there a cleaner way around this? Maybe if just member variables would
be used instead of global defines, it would be easier to instantiate
multiple different smarties.

Any ideas?

Greetings,
Ivo

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Ivo Jansch <[email protected]>
ibuildings.nl BV - information technology
http://www.ibuildings.nl
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