Re: [SMARTY-DEV] Object Support

Michael Davey wrote:
> Thomas Schulz wrote:
>> are there currently any plans to simplify and extend Smartys support 
>> for accessing objects? What I want to see is:
>>
>> Function: {object.method}

> I posted a patch to this list on Jul 21, 2005 (subject: "smarty custom 
> functions namespaces") to do the above, but using '::' rather than '.'

Yes, found this after posting.

> The patch wasn't greeted with much enthusiasm. 

This is maybe because you try to introduce ':' as another syntax element.

I don't like this as I don't like {object->method} and 
{$object->property} inside templates. The template designer should not 
have to know whether a placeholder is originally an array, object or 
whatever.

ThS.