Using Smarty or PHP in cateogry descriptions to reference language strings

thisclicks · #1 10-01-2009, 08:11 AM

Hi. I want to be able to include a language referecne in my category descriptions. For example I would like to put "$lng.lbl_my_text" in the description tag.

I've thought of doing this a couple ways but neither work. Does anyone know how I can do this.

Here are the ways I've tried it:

Var only:

PHP Code:


		
			
$lng.lbl_my_text

PHP:

PHP Code:


		
			
<?php echo "$lng.lbl_my_text"; ?>

Smarty:

Code:

{php} echo '$lng.lbl_my_text'; {/php}

Jon · #2 10-01-2009, 08:22 AM

It won't work since smarty tags won't be processed. You'd probably have to set a variable in your text like ##yourvariable## and then in your home.php file use something like:

Code:

if ($current_category['description'] != '')
$current_category['description'] = str_replace('##yourvariable##',func_get_langvar_by_name('lbl_my_text'),$current_category['description']);

thisclicks · #3 10-01-2009, 08:27 AM

Thanks for the info. Would it make the most sense to do this in the PHP file for home.php or should I do this in the TPL files? Probably the home.php.... right?

Jon · #4 10-01-2009, 08:58 AM

Usually best to put any php processing into the php file, but you could do something this in smarty everywhere the description is used in tpl files (i.e. skin1/customer/main/subcategories.tpl}:

{$current_category.description|replace:"##variable ##":`$lng.lbl_my_text`}

thisclicks · #5 10-05-2009, 11:08 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jon

It won't work since smarty tags won't be processed. You'd probably have to set a variable in your text like ##yourvariable## and then in your home.php file use something like:

Code:

if ($current_category['description'] != '')
$current_category['description'] = str_replace('##yourvariable##',func_get_langvar_by_name('lbl_my_text'),$current_category['description']);

Is there a way to make this a little smarter? So I don't have to put an IF statement for each $lng VAR?

Could it somehow evaluate the ##yourvariable## and attached it to $lng.yourvariable ? Would that be some kind of eval function? Thanks for the help.

Thanks,

Chad

thisclicks · #6 10-06-2009, 01:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by thisclicks

Is there a way to make this a little smarter? So I don't have to put an IF statement for each $lng VAR?

Could it somehow evaluate the ##yourvariable## and attached it to $lng.yourvariable ? Would that be some kind of eval function? Thanks for the help.

Thanks,

Chad

Anybody have any ideas on how to do what is described above? Thanks!

thisclicks · #7 10-12-2009, 12:53 PM

I figured it out. It's a bit more dynamic this way. This will work for current_category descriptions that have one var defined in them as ##VAR##. put this in the home.php along with the other smarty assigns. you'll need to change the smarty var reference in your tpl to this new one.

PHP Code:


		
			
$cat_desc = $current_category['description'];

if (strpos($cat_desc, '##', 0)) {
    
    $cat_lng_str = substr($cat_desc, strpos($cat_desc, '##', 0), strpos($cat_desc, '##', 1));
    
    $cat_lng_var = str_replace("##", "", $cat_lng_str);
    
    $tmp_lng = func_get_langvar_by_name("$cat_lng_var");
    
    $smarty->assign("cat_desc", str_replace($cat_lng_str, $tmp_lng, $current_category['description']));

} else {

    $smarty->assign("cat_desc", $current_category['description']);

}