Assigning custom function

[damianxd]

I've been reading and trying different methods but I haven't been able to assign variables from a custom tag. Something like:
{8ball var1='num' assign='result'}
{$result}

I saw that I could use a custom tag inside the assign tag, like this:
{assign var="returndata" value={8ball var1='num'}}
but that doesn't work with arrays as the return for the custom tag.

Is there any way to achieve this?
Thanks for the help

[wisskid]

Use {capture}{/capture}?

[wisskid]

Probably won't work with arrays either.

[mohrt]

Although this doesn't address the question directly, assigning variables in-template is an anti-pattern. You should be assigning variables from the PHP code to the template. This may require some refactor, but it will make things a lot easier and cleaner template-side.

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[damianxd]

I've tried to use this:
https://www.smarty.net/docs/en/plugins.functions.tpl

and set the output with the template assign function, it works and I managed to use the the variable on the template, the downside is that I get a lot of files on the template compile folder:

Any ideas on how to avoid creating so many compiled files? The site is quite big and has a lot of traffic, using this would mean the server would go out of free inodes in just some days.

[mohrt]

Is there any way you can do this work in the PHP app and assign the variables to the template? Using a plugin function is handling business logic in the template, something you should do in the app.

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[damianxd]

it's a big site with an old version of Smarty (3.x) and I'm trying to update it to 5. I have no chance of changing the whole design of the site in the amount of time I got, there are functions starting a {include} in case some conditions have been met and a lot of subdivision on each one of the pages, it would take ages to move everything into php.

[mohrt]

I see so this is a migration and you are stuck with what you've got. Can you show how it worked in Smarty 3 and what isn't working in Smarty 5? Is it just the additional compiled files?

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[damianxd]

It's just a lot of those {insert} tags, but I see they are now deprecated

[mohrt]

{insert} was deprecated in smarty 3.1, it would be best to move away from them. you can make things not cached other ways.

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[damianxd]

Since it's already documented, I hope someone knows how to use this: https://www.smarty.net/docs/en/plugins.functions.tpl without generating an external compiled file for the string and add it to the tpl compiled file instead