使用Smarty模板显示数组？

Question

I'm trying to use Smarty to automatically insert data into a textarea.

There are two lines that will be inserted. Here's an example of what would be inserted:

John Doe
Level 1, Support Tech

Obviously each name would have a position associated with it.

I'm imagining it should be something like this:

$array-names = array("John Joe", "Jane Doe", "Random Name");
$array-positions = array("Level 1, Support Tech", "Level 2, Sales Staff", "Level 2, Billing Team");

And then I would just need to randomly pick one to automatically insert - but they need to match. For example, John Doe should always have Level 1, Support Tech listed below.

Is doing something like this possible in Smarty or am I on the totally wrong track...?

Answer 1

Couldn't you create an array in Smarty in the order you described

Then use this following method in smarty to display the array, for example:

<?php
//an organized array with names and positions that match
$array_names_positions = array(1 => array('Name' => 'John Doe', 'position' => 'Level 1, Support Tech'),
                              2 => array('Name' => 'Jane Doe', 'position' => 'Level 2, Sales Staff')
                              3 => array('Name' => 'Random Name', 'position' => 'Level 2, Billing Team')
                    );

//assign the array to $items var
$smarty->assign('items', $array_names_positions);

//draw a textarea and display the array, (you can work on your display mechanism to limit or to display all here
<textarea>
{foreach from=$items key=myId item=i}
  {$i.name}: {$i.position}
{/foreach}
</textarea>

When you say randomly pick one to automatically insert, you can either randomly display one in the textarea and have a submit button to save that record to db.

And if you want to randomize you can use $array_names_positions[mt_rand(0,count($array_names_positions)-1)] to shuffle

You can put the php code in the .tpl file; becareful when you insert php code in a smarty template file. Be sure to use:

{php}
//php code here
{/php} 

in your smarty template. Don't mix too much php code with the template file; it defeats the purpose of the template to keep it balanced. If the php code has ton of logic you should put that in a smarty controller.