Re: [Phpwebsite-developers] processTemplate() change

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

On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 00:11, Richard Sumilang wrote:
> Yeah that boolean suggestion will work for me :-D Lets do it!
> 
> +1
> 
> 
> 
> On Oct 24, 2003, at 11:33 AM, Steven Levin wrote:
> 
> > 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?

Richard,

 Have you tried the showBlocks parameter that is already part of the
processTemplate function ?

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