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  2. Smarty Functions

    1. This URL Smarty Function

  3. Smarty Pagination Plugin

    1. Pagination Class
    2. Smarty Pager Function

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These tutorials reflect personal projects while practicing of new tools, ideas, techniques and technologies. They can not be used on their own as a final solution for any website.

I will be using xHTML, CSS and PHP in most of the tutorials so a basic understanding of each will be ideal but not a requirement if you work each tutorial from the beginning. I will also be making use of the jQuery javascript API for effects, AJAX and loads more.

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Smarty Pager Function


Tutorial:  Smarty Pagination Plugin

Skills:     smarty, php, html

Goal:      Write smarty function plugin

Starting off you will need to create 5x .tpl files in the templates folder.

  • /templates/pager_previous.tpl
  • /templates/pager_next.tpl
  • /templates/pager_middle.tpl
  • /templates/pager_first.tpl
  • /templates/pager_last.tpl

You will need to create the smarty function under the smarty plugins folder.

/includes/Smarty/plugins/function.pager.php
<php
function smarty_function_pager($params, &$smarty) {

if (!class_exists('Page')) {
$smarty->trigger_error("pager: missing Page.class.php");
return;
}
$page = new Page($params['mode'],$params['currentpage'],$params['perPage'],$params['range'],$params['navSet'],$params['thisTpl']);
foreach($params as $k=>$v){
$smarty->assign($k,$v);
}
$smarty->assign('page',$page->pageInfo);
$smarty->assign('navSet',$page->link);
$smarty->assign('pagerNext',$page->pagerNext);
$smarty->assign('pagerPrevious',$page->pagerPrevious);
$smarty->assign('pagerMid',$page->pagerMid);
$smarty->assign('pagerFirst',$page->pagerFirst);
$smarty->assign('pagerLast',$page->pagerLast);

$section = $smarty->fetch($params['tpl'].'.tpl');
return stripslashes($section);
}
?>