Smarty PHP Template Programming and Applications

	Smarty PHP Template Programming and Applications
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Book Contents

Preface
Chapter 1: Introduction to Smarty
Chapter 2: Smarty Site Architecture
Chapter 3: What Designers Need to Know
Chapter 4: Creating a Template
Chapter 5: Advanced Templating
Chapter 6: Smarty Functions
Chapter 7: Debugging for Designers
Chapter 8: Built-in Smarty Variables and Methods
Chapter 9: Caching and Performance
Chapter 10: Extending Smarty with Plug-ins
Chapter 11: Filters
Chapter 12: Internationalization
Index

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Chapter 5: Advanced Templating

In the previous chapter, you have learned about the basic workflow of Smarty templates. We demonstrated how you can implement conditions and loops, and also demonstrated usage of some necessary Smarty functions that are used in everyday web applications. However, there are a lot of features that you are not familiar with as yet. In this chapter we will give you a basic introduction to plug‑ins and modifiers. We will also go through the creation of two advanced web applications, which will further clear your concepts. By the end of this chapter you will be introduced to configuration files, a special storage medium for storing the value of Smarty variables and using them later.

Chapter 5: Advanced Templating
- Smarty under the Hood
  - Compile Steps
  - Prefilters and Postfilters
  - What is a Smarty Modifier?
- Stretch your Imagination with Smarty
  - Student Transcript
  - Photo Gallery
- Available Modifiers
  - capitalize
  - count_characters
  - cat
  - count_paragraphs
  - count_words
  - date_format
  - default
  - escape
  - indent
  - lower
  - upper
  - nl2br
  - regex_replace
  - replace
  - spacify
  - string_format
  - strip
  - strip_tags
  - truncate
  - wordwrap
- Combining Modifiers
- Configuration Files
- Summary

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Released: April 2006
ISBN: 190481140X

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