Re: Running two different Smarties on a single page

--- Ivo Jansch <[email protected]> wrote:
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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.

Its still not that easy. The plugins, for example are generally global
functions so only one version of a plugin can be loaded at any time.

> Any ideas?

Upgrade the version of Smarty that the CMS uses? It may be easier than
trying to get true side-by-side working. I wonder if you can spawn a
separate process by separating the two and accessing S9y from a http
include? Even if you could, it sounds like a bad solution. Another idea
like this is to fake it, err, I mean simulate it -- use an emdedded
iframe in your document that does a separate request for the S9y
content.

> Greetings,
> Ivo



	
		
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