smarty templates should be depreciated (which I suspect will be the case), They serve little purpose, other that one more thing to maintain, and are much more limited and more roundabout than standard code.
Unfortunately I went on about separation for concern and template engines a couple years ago so, I feel partly responsible.
I quoted the wrong reply, I rejected your first answer at the time but that has come out to be the answer.
I ended up getting everything to work, however I don't know how to add in the whatever is the equivalent of {custom_menu}, I have also been receiving some weird behaviour when using certain plugins, with then being unable to find certain variable or constants that would work usually.
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create a separate function rather than editing an existing one.
So if i created a seperate function and put it in the theme, would it work through there, or would the user have to move it to there /SmartyPlugins/ folder ?
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check part of the profile.php, it contains this, maybe it helps you finding out how.
Where would I find this profile.php ? there are quite a few
oh sorry...i am a bit sleepy..., i ment views/profile/index.php
Mmm, can't get it in smarty though, and I don't want to change the template to php, it is too messy.
So I got it working by converting my template to php and using
With the code you gave me in /views/discussions/userphoto however had to change $this to $Session.
However no have run into the problem of not being able to display link, as in Dashboard, discussions, activity, profile, inbox etc. etc.
I was using
thanks for sharing!
-.- I already rejected that answer I am just going to accept this one
now i am confused
you mean you can't use these links because your theme is php now? When I get home I will get you the code for these, my theme is php
smarty templates should be depreciated (which I suspect will be the case), They serve little purpose, other that one more thing to maintain, and are much more limited and more roundabout than standard code.
Unfortunately I went on about separation for concern and template engines a couple years ago so, I feel partly responsible.
grep is your friend.
gnarrr! then i gotta rewrite mine soon
I quoted the wrong reply, I rejected your first answer at the time but that has come out to be the answer.
I ended up getting everything to work, however I don't know how to add in the whatever is the equivalent of {custom_menu}, I have also been receiving some weird behaviour when using certain plugins, with then being unable to find certain variable or constants that would work usually.
try this:
That looks very much familiar to the code I copied my code from.
It's probably standard in php themes...
That's where I pulled it from :P
easier edit function.photo_link.php at vanilla\library\vendors\SmartyPlugins. I just found it @_@
And if you want to add custom, try working with smartyplugins
yeah, couldn't do that though because I was working on a theme to distribute which would require others to also have to make the alterations.
create a separate function rather than editing an existing one.
grep is your friend.
So if i created a seperate function and put it in the theme, would it work through there, or would the user have to move it to there /SmartyPlugins/ folder ?