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Split works much like "foreach" but instead of iterating over the array an element at a time, it iterates over a set of subarrays of roughly equal size. The motivation is to allow multicolumn layouts without either a lot of ugly smarty markup or requiring the generating page to handle breaking the array down for the column display (which requires encoding the number of columns in the php code).
Kevin Sours
(suggestions, bug reports, etc can be directed to ksours at internetbrands dot com)
<?php
$smarty->assign("myarray", array("one", "two", "three", "four", "five", "six", "seven", "eight");
?>
{split count=2 from=$myarray item="arraySplit"}
<ul>
{foreach from=$arraySlice item="item"}
<li><a href="mypage.php?value={$item}">{$item}</a></li>
{/foreach}
</ul>
{/split}
<ul> <li><a href="mypage.php?value=one">one</a></li> <li><a href="mypage.php?value=two">two</a></li> <li><a href="mypage.php?value=three">three</a></li> </ul> <ul> <ul> <li><a href="mypage.php?value=four">four</a></li> <li><a href="mypage.php?value=five">five</a></li> <li><a href="mypage.php?value=six">six</a></li> </ul> <ul> <li><a href="mypage.php?value=seven">seven</a></li> <li><a href="mypage.php?value=eight">eight</a></li> </ul>
Any extra items will be added to the first chunks. If the array is a associative array, then the keys will not be preserved in the chunks returned.
As usual, copy the following code to block.split.php and put it in your smarty plugins directory.
(last updated 2007-09-04)
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<?php
/**
* Smarty plugin
* @package Smarty
* @subpackage plugins
*/
/*
Distributed under the terms of the BSD Licence:
Copyright (c) 2007, Internet Brands, Inc (www.internetbrands.com)
All rights reserved.
Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
* Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of
conditions and the following disclaimer.
* Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice,
this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other
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* Neither the name of the Internet Brands nor the names of its contributors may be used
to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior
written permission.
THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS
"AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT
LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR
A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT OWNER OR
CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL,
EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO,
PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR
PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF
LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING
NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS
SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
*/
/**
* Smarty {split}{/split} block plugin
*
* Type: block function<br>
* Name: split<br>
* Purpose: loop structure that splits an array into chunks to allow for column formatting -- return chunks
* in column format
* @param array
* <pre>
* Params: count: number of columns
* from: source array
* name: smarty param to assign chunks to
* </pre>
* @author Kevin Sours (kevin.sours@internetbrands.com)
* Internet Brands (http://ibbydev.blogspot.com/)
* @param string contents of the block
* @param Smarty
* @return string $content -- smarty content is not modified.
*/
function smarty_block_split($params, $content, &$smarty, &$repeat) {
if (!array_key_exists('from', $params)) {
$smarty->trigger_error("split: missing 'from' parameter", E_USER_WARNING);
$repeat = false;
return;
}
//if the source var isn't set, quietly treat it as empty.
if(is_null($params['from'])) {
$repeat = false;
return;
}
if (!is_array($params['from'])) {
$smarty->trigger_error("split: 'from' parameter must be an array", E_USER_WARNING);
$repeat = false;
return;
}
if (!isset($params['item'])) {
$smarty->trigger_error("split: missing 'item' parameter", E_USER_WARNING);
$repeat = false;
return;
}
$count = 2;
if (isset($params['count'])) {
$count = $params['count'];
}
$name = $params['item'];
$indexName = "smarty.IB.split.$name.index";
$index = $smarty->get_template_vars($indexName);
if(!$index) {
$index = 0;
}
$lastName = "smarty.IB.split.$name.last";
$source = $params["from"];
if(is_null($content)) {
$index++;
$smarty->assign($indexName, $index);
$amount = split_helper_getsize($source, $count, $index);
split_helper_doslice(&$smarty, $name, $lastName, $source, $amount);
}
else {
if($index == $count) {
$smarty->clear_assign($indexName);
$smarty->clear_assign($lastName);
$smarty->clear_assign($name);
}
else {
$index++;
$smarty->assign($indexName, $index);
$amount = split_helper_getsize($source, $count, $index);
split_helper_doslice(&$smarty, $name, $lastName, $source, $amount);
$repeat = true;
}
return $content;
}
}
function split_helper_getsize($source, $count, $index) {
$amount = (int) (count($source)/$count);
$extra = count($source) % $count;
if($extra >= $index) {
$amount++;
}
return $amount;
}
function split_helper_doslice(&$smarty, $name, $lastName, $source, $amount) {
$last = $smarty->get_template_vars($lastName);
if(!$last) {
$last = 0;
}
$slice = array_slice($source, $last, $amount, false);
$smarty->assign($name, $slice);
$smarty->assign($lastName, ($last + $amount));
return $slice;
}
?>
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