Re: [Phpwebsite-developers] processTemplate() change

[Steven L. <st...@tu...>]

On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 18:35, Richard Sumilang wrote:
> Currently in PWS the processTemplate() function will not process a 
> template if the values of the first paramater was NULL, blank, or if 
> there where no {TEMP} strings in the template. Can it be modified in 
> the future to still process templates even though array(NULL) or 
> array() was passed to it?
> 
> If I want a template to be used right now and for some reason the user 
> left some stuff blank I add a string in the template called {FOO} and 
> append $array['FOO']=' '; just to make sure the template gets processed 
> each time.
> 
> Is there a better way to possible do this? What do you guys think?

We have run into this same problem.  Unfortunately it is a limitation of
the PEAR HTML_Template_IT class.  We could add a boolean flag to the
processTemplate function that would replace NULLs with '' so that the
template would still be processed.  Does this sound like a reasonable
solution?

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Steven Levin
Computer Systems Admin I
Electronic Student Services
Appalachian State University
Phone: 828.262.6740
http://phpwebsite.appstate.edu