Smarty

[Ceph]

[boots]

Perhaps use a config file. Since config files support custom resources you might want to write one that introspects your class instead of duplicating the constant definitions in both your class and a real config file. That way you should be able to do something like:

{config_load file="ClassConstants:Client"}
{if $foo == #STATUS_DEMO#}

I haven't actually tried (or needed) such a thing but it should work well enough.

Perhaps a little bit simpler, you can extend your custom Smarty class and add a method that introspects a given class and assigns it to a standard array that you can define:

$smarty->assignClassConstants('Client');
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{if $foo == $const.Client.STATUS_DEMO}

or something along those lines.

As for page->GetClient()->status_type, please search the forum for 'derefrencing'.

[Ceph]

The constants issue isn't a biggie, as you said. I did write a simple converter method in my derived Smarty object to convert all class constants to real constants.

However, Smarty breaking the object code isn't very nice.

I can only resort to:

{assign var="client" value=$page->GetClient()}
{if $client->status_type ...

which works for now I guess. Will a "5" version be released?

[boots]

Well... you may think of it of breaking code or you can think of it as supporting PHP4 style objects which is what Smarty 2.x is designed to do. My guess is that Smarty 3.x will address the issue of PHP5 style objects.

[Ceph]

In case anyone else needs to use class constants in PHP5/Smarty 2 series:

[boots]

nice one, ceph!