Adding PHP function to Smarty template "record.tpl"

[mobleyt]

I am currently attempting to implement some PHP to link thumbnail images for each record item when records are listed in our archives.

I intend to use portions of the records' oai urls, which are available through the "getIdentifier" function from the record.inc.php file in "classes/record/".

I see that in "templates/browse/record.tpl" I can add elements to the template's "iterate" function for listing records. However, since the templates are constructed with Smarty's syntax, I'm having trouble writing this function in a way that Smarty will accept. Is it possible to include a php script into the tpl file? I'm just not familiar with Smarty, so I'm not sure how to code this in the proper syntax.

I hope this makes sense!

[asmecher]

Hi mobleyt,

Smarty is quite easy to use for simple tasks -- if you're doing anything more than {foreach ...} or {if ...} statements, consider doing the heavy lifting in PHP (e.g. in plugins/schemas/dc/DublinCorePlugin.inc.php, by overriding the parent class's displayRecord function) and then using Smarty to simply display the results. You can embed PHP directly in Smarty using {php} ... {/php} blocks, but I wouldn't recommend doing it that way.

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team