Re: [SMARTY-DEV] Error reporting info in compiled templates

Can you give a specific example of how this would work and what this 
would accomplish?

Thanks
Monte

Daniel BODEA wrote:

>Greetings,
>
>We are using Smarty in a system that needs a little more than a simple
>template engine and the plug-ins system is the one that allows for that. We
>basically provide plug-ins for data retrieval inside the templates and let
>designers organize their templates the way they see fit and put in the
>content of their choice.
>
>What I believe is missing from Smarty right now though (that is if I'm not
>mistaken), is the debugging info inside the compiled templates that we'd use
>for instance to report exact errors to the designers. A data retrieval
>plug-in that needs to report an error to the designer can currently either
>use Smarty's trigger_error method that doesn't tell the designer much or
>play around with backtraces and Smarty private variables to try to figure
>out the template name, the line number and the plug-in name that the
>designer needs to track down the problem, and all this time hoping that you
>don't stumble upon PHP bugs in backtraces and the like. Needless to say this
>solution is neither scalable nor does it guarantee consistency with future
>versions of Smarty.
>
>The solution would be to track debug info in compiled templates either as
>PHP statements that fill in variables or as PHP comments with special
>prefixes that don't add any more processing weight to the templates and can
>be easily searched for in case error reporting is needed.
>
>This is just the incentive of the idea but I'd first like to know if such a
>system already exists or if anyone is already working on something related
>and also if the project's coordinators would be interested in such a thing.
>
>Daniel
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