Posted by boots on 06/16/05 21:56

To be fair, it was never claimed that Smarty WAS PHP. The fact that
something is possible in PHP is no gaurantee that it will be possible
in Smarty; however, the fact that something ISN'T possible in PHP is
often indicative that it won't be doable in Smarty. Ergo the PHP4
argument. The PHP5 sarcasm is rather unfair.

Its not that the idea is bad (or hasn't already been considered) its
just that it is completely non-BC. I would think it would make a good
candidate for a future version but at the same time, I think it will
promote several questionable practices for template usage (such as
deeply nested hierarchies).

Best Regards.

--- Joe Stump <joe@joestump.net> wrote:

> You're right, we should ignore PHP5. Sarcasm aside, I would assume
> the Smarty developers would like Smarty to be PHP5 friendly and
> support as much PHP5 stuff as possible. I don't see this as a
> "feature", but simply the fact that Smarty isn't fully PHP5
> compatible.
>
> So, I guess, it's not a bug since Smarty doesn't tout itself to be
> PHP5 compatible. When it *does* tout itself as PHP5 compatible and
> this problem isn't fixed *then* it would be a bug.
>
> Either way this should be filed as a "bug report" - whether it's
> filed as a "feature" or a "bug" is up to whoever submits it I
> suppose. Like I said, this problem breaks what I perceive to be
> expected behavior only because ($foo->bar()} already works in Smarty.
>
> --Joe
>
> On Jun 16, 2005, at 9:35 AM, boots wrote:
>
> > --- Joe Stump <joe@joestump.net> wrote:
> >
> >> If that's the case I'd file a bug report. If you're running Smarty
> >> under PHP5 this should work fine I would think - at least I'd
> expect
> >> it to.
> >>
> >
> > Why? Nowhere in the Smarty docs is it suggested that this is
> possible.
> > Smarty is PHP4 library and it inherits PHP4's biases.
> >
> > xo boots
> >
> >
> >> --Joe
> >>
> >> On Jun 16, 2005, at 9:19 AM, messju mohr wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>> On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 09:15:39AM -0700, Joe Stump wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> What you're doing only works under PHP5. You can't do
> $foo->bar()-
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>> display() in PHP4. That being said, if you ARE running PHP5
> this
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>> should work just fine and, if it's not, then you've most likely
> >>>>
> >> found
> >>
> >>>> a bug.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> yes, this works in php5, but not in a smarty template.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> --Joe
> >>>>
> >>>> On Jun 15, 2005, at 6:28 PM, Garret Heaton wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>> Is there a way to call a method on an object returned from
> >>>>>
> >> another
> >>
> >>>>> method in Smarty?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I'm trying to do: {$obj->getSomeObject()->getSomeString()} but
> it
> >>>>> can't understand it. Is there any way to get around this. I
> want
> >>>>>
> >> to
> >>
> >>>>> avoid calling getSomeObject() before loading the template so
> that
> >>>>> things are cleaner.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Thanks,
> >>>>> Garret
> >>>>>
> >
> >
>
>

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