Re: [SMARTY] Padding Strings

> What is the easiest way to pad a string in smarty?

Just embed the smarty-var in the string:
--{$myVar}--

works also in loops  ;)

- david

Sorry, I didn't explain it well enough, because I don't know what the strin=
g
will be as it comes from a db, so it could be:

---ab---

I basically want to pad a string left and right, but dynamically, ie the
same as:

<?php
$input =3D "Alien";
echo str_pad($input, 10, "_", STR_PAD_BOTH);  // produces "__Alien___"
?>

Jake

On 13/3/04 9:37, "David F=F6rster" <david@dfoerster.de> wrote:
 
>=20
> Just embed the smarty-var in the string:
> --{$myVar}--
>=20
> works also in loops  ;)
>=20
> - david

On Sat, 13 Mar 2004 10:00:46 +0000
Jake Stride <jas@dcs.warwick.ac.uk> wrote:

> Sorry, I didn't explain it well enough, because I don't know what the
> string will be as it comes from a db, so it could be:
>
> ---ab---
>
> I basically want to pad a string left and right, but dynamically, ie
> the same as:
>
> <?php
> $input = "Alien";
> echo str_pad($input, 10, "_", STR_PAD_BOTH);  // produces "__Alien___"
> ?>

If you're security settings are not too strict, you can use any php
function as a modifier, so
& #123;$myVar|str_pad:10:'_':STR_PAD_BOTH}

should work.

- david

On Sat, Mar 13, 2004 at 12:16:28PM +0200, David Förster wrote:
> On Sat, 13 Mar 2004 10:00:46 +0000
> Jake Stride <jas@dcs.warwick.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
>
> If you're security settings are not too strict, you can use any php
> function as a modifier, so
> & #123;$myVar|str_pad:10:'_':STR_PAD_BOTH}


(just a little addition)
to get the const straight it's:

{$myVar|str_pad:10:'_':$smarty.const.STR_PAD_BOTH}

greetings
messju

> should work.
>
> - david
>
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