PHP, Smarty and empty if()’s

Posted on December 21, 2003
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I’ve just installed Smarty and it’s all working well save for one issue: all the if () statements in my compiled templates are empty, like so:

<?php if (): echo $this->_tpl_vars['pageTitle'];
else: echo $this->_config[0]['vars']['pageTitle'];
endif; ?>

The template code looks like:

{if $pageTitle}{$pageTitle}{else}{#pageTitle#}{/if}

and I can’t figure out why. Anyone have any suggestions?

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3 Responses to “PHP, Smarty and empty if()’s”

  1. Lex on December 21st, 2003 5:30 pm

    Just as a debugging tool, what happens if you try:

    {if (!empty($pageTitle))} or

    {if ($pageTitle == TRUE)}

    ?

  2. Patrick Berry on December 21st, 2003 6:06 pm

    Which version of smarty? Which version of PHP? The built-in php?

  3. Dirk on February 8th, 2004 11:48 am

    Hm, never had a problem like that. Maybe you could post some additional info, versions, config and setup.

    What I often find to be helpful is setting up the minimal code that triggers a problem, e.g. extracting your few lines of template code into a separate project, wich minimal config.

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