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kxc
kxc

Reputation: 1457

Smarty general block code inheritance

Is it real to get block content from parent file to child? For example, I have 3 files parent.tpl & first-child.tpl & second-child.tpl

Parent contains that code:

<div>
    {block name='greetings'}{/block}
</div>

First-Child contains:

{extends file="parent.tpl"}
{block name='greetings'}
    <h1>Hello! I'm child</h1>
{/block}

Second-Child contains same as first greetings block (same text only), but instead of h1 tag, second-child use h4 tag:

{extends file="parent.tpl"}
{block name='greetings'}
    <h4>Hello! I'm child</h4>
{/block}

I don't want to duplicate that text Hello! I'm child in each child, but put this into own block. It can be done that way: Create new file greeting_text.tpl and include them into each child, but I don't want to allocate for that own file. I tried to declare that text into parent.tpl:

...
{block name='greetings_text'}Hello! I'm child{/block}

And get that from children:

{extends file="parent.tpl"}
{block name='greetings'}
    <h1>{block name='greetings_text'}{/block}</h1>
{/block}

and second-child:

{extends file="parent.tpl"}
{block name='greetings'}
    <h4>{block name='greetings_text'}{/block}</h4>
{/block}

But I understood it's impossible to take block content from parent to child. Or maybe i'm wrong. Please give me advice, how I can do that except put greeting_text into their own file and include them in children? Thanks!

EDITED:

Sorry, previous question text was a little bit incorrect (not fully describe what I'm trying to do)

How wrote sofl, it's work with append construction. But problem is, that i have 3 files, and two of them extendable (layout.tpl, default.tpl and page.tpl)

layout.tpl 

<div class="layout">
  {block name="content"}{/block}
</div>

default.tpl

{extends file="layout.tpl"}

{block name='menu'}
  <ul>
      <li>Link 1</li>
      <li>Link 2</li>
      <li>Link 3</li>
  </ul>
{/block}

page.tpl 

{extends file="default.tpl"}

{block name="content"}
  <div class="first-page-example">
      {block name='menu' append}{/block}

      <span>I'm text only for first page....</span>
  </div>
{/block}

I launch page.tpl ($smarty->display('page.tpl')), and i wanted to get menu from default.tpl to each child (page.tpl, p.s. there can be many child page1.tpl, page2.tpl,... But for all of them, needed to put default menu from default.tpl) And put that all to layout.tpl like a content. So how i can do that with block construction? Please, any advices.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1864

Answers (1)

sofl
sofl

Reputation: 1024

Use prepend or append to keep the content of the parent block. http://www.smarty.net/docs/en/language.function.block.tpl

parent

<div>
    {block name='greetings'}<h4>Hello! I'm child</h4>{/block}
</div>

child

{extends file="parent.tpl"}
{block name='greetings' append}
    <h5>...here I am</h5>
{/block}

UPDATED ANSWER

It seems abit tricky. You might use more than one block content. The block menu in default.tpl has no placement.

Some possibilities

layout.tpl

<div class='layout'>
  {block name='content'}{/block}
</div>

default.tpl

{extends file='layout.tpl'}

{block name='content'}
    {block name='menu'}
      <ul>
          <li>Link 1</li>
          <li>Link 2</li>
          <li>Link 3</li>
      </ul>
    {/block}
    {block name='actualContent'}{/block}
{/block}

page.tpl

{extends file='default.tpl'}

{block name='menu'}
    <div class="first-page-example">
        {$smarty.block.parent}
    </div>
{/block}
{block name='actualContent'}
    <span>I'm text only for first page....</span>
{/block}

I don't know much about the background of your project but personally I would not add too much structure to page.tpl. So my alternate would look like so

layout.tpl

<div class='layout'>
  {block name='content'}{/block}
</div>

default.tpl

{extends file='layout.tpl'}
{block 'content'}
    <header>
        <nav>
        {block 'menu'}
            <ul>
                <li>Link 1</li>
                <li>Link 2</li>
                <li>Link 3</li>
            </ul>
        {/block}
        </nav>
    </header>
    <main>
        {block 'actualContent'}comming soon...{/block}
    </main>
{/block}

page.tpl

{extends file='default.tpl'}
{block 'actualContent'}
    <article>I'm text only for first page....</article>
{/block}

This doesnt exactly answers your question but may help I think.

Upvotes: 2

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