Re: [SMARTY] Problem with assign_by_ref

--- Jean-Sébastien Guay <jean_seb@videotron.ca> wrote:
> Hello,

Hi.

> I'm relatively new to Smarty, and I'm having trouble with
> assign_by_ref.
> Here's the situation.
>
> I'm passing a hash to a member function that looks like this :
>     public function presentResult( $result ) {
>         foreach ( $result as $key => $value ) {
>                 self::$smarty->assign_by_ref( $key, $value );
>         }
>
>         self::$smarty->display( 'index.tpl' );
>     }
> I was using assign() before, instead of assign_by_ref(), and it
> worked
> fine. But now I want to pass objects to Smarty as well as simple
> scalars, so I changed it to assign_by_ref() for all variables (since
> I
> don't modify any variables in templates, it doesn't really matter).
> Now,
> it seems as if none of my variables are making it to Smarty... If I
> look
> at the debug pop-up, all the variables show up as empty...
>
> Am I doing something wrong? I assume something like this should
> work...

Probably :)

That syntax looks rather like PHP5 to me. I'd say this: 1) don't pass
everything by reference -- it actually is slower to do so in the PHP
engine from everything I've read. 2) objects are automagically passed
by reference in PHP5. You don't have to do anything at all to get that
behaviour. 3) Smarty's code has not changed to reflect this change in
PHP5. If you really want to assign an object to smarty as by-val then
you must use the clone the object as you assign it. In other words, if
all you want to have is your objects passed by reference then leave
your original code the way it was. You are already getting that
behaviour in PHP5.

Of course, if you are using PHP4, that's a different matter entirely...

xo boots

>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> J-S

Hi Boots,

>That syntax looks rather like PHP5 to me.
>
It is.

>In other words, if
>all you want to have is your objects passed by reference then leave
>your original code the way it was. You are already getting that
>behaviour in PHP5.
>
>
Errr... ok. So I don't need assign_by_ref() at all? Then why does it say
I need it to get objects passed to Smarty here?
http://smarty.php.net/manual/en/advanced.features.php
--> Outdated documentation? That's bad...

Anyways, thanks for the info, I'll see if just using normal assign() works.

J-S

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