Smarty array with dot in key

Question

I have an array in PHP that looks like this:

$config['detailpage.var1']
$config['detailpage.var2']
$config['otherpage.var2']
$config['otherpage.var2']
...

To access it in Smarty I would do

$smarty->assign('config', $config);

With this template:

{$config.detailpage.var1}

Unfortunately this does not work, due to the dot in my array key "detailpage.var1", which for Smarty is the delimitor for the array elements. As I don't want to rewrite my config array (cause it is used in many other places), my question is:

Is there any other notation I could use that works with the dots in the array keys? Or can I somehow escape them?

Answer 1

Maybe $smarty->assign('config', array_values($config)); and {$config[0]} instead of {$config.detailpage.var1} would do.

Answer 2

Try using array notation {$config['detailpage.var1']} or {$config[detailpage.var1]}.

Answer 3

You can reformat the keys in the associative array to comply with Smart Compiler Regex'es.

$configS = array();
foreach($config as $key => $value)
{
    $key = str_replace('.','_',$key);
    $configS[$key] = $value;
}
$smarty->assign('config', $configS);

OR

$configS = array();
foreach($config as $key => $value) $configS[str_replace('.','_',$key)] = $value;
$smarty->assign('config', $configS);

Now you can use {$config.detailpage_var1} instead, just substitute the . with a _.

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Walk the array,

function cleanKeysForSmarty(&item,$key)
{
    return array(str_replace('.','_',$key) => $value);
}
$smarty->assign("config",array_walk_recursive($config,'cleanKeysForSmarty'));

Something along those lines.

Answer 4

Not the smartest solution but it should work:

{assign var=myKey value="detailpage.var1"}
{$config.$myKey}