How to use Smarty resources
Have you ever faced the situation, that the content of a variable is a Smarty template like string, and you want to fetch or display it? I worked on project where we decided that our language file entries will be Smarty templates, because we need the flexibility of the template engine (sprintf was not enough). The problem is, that by default Smarty’s fetch/display method accepts a template file name. Of course we could write the text to a temporary file, but it would be bigger hack than PHPNuke. Fortunately Smarty has the mechanism to solve this problem via defining custom resource types. (more…)
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