[TriLUG] Smarty

[Scott Lambdin]

I was going to say about the same thing Michael said.  Looks like Smarty 3
added "break"


On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 1:41 PM, Michael Kimsal <mgkimsal at gmail.com> wrote:

> You'd likely need to create some other placeholder value that is checked
> inside your iteration loop, and only process if the value is set to
> something specific.  When a condition is met, change the placeholder value.
>  The iteration will continue but skip over the actual logic.
>
> Yeah, you could modify the DB call in this case, but being able to break
> out of loops in general is a useful pattern, but AFAIK smarty doesn't
> support it.  Groovy (java) doesn't either in its "each" iteration, which
> bugs me.  :/
>
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 11:45 AM, Brian McCullough <bdmc at buadh-brath.com
> >wrote:
>
> > Drawing once again on the deep well of knowledge here, I have a question
> > about Smarty.
> >
> > If there a "break" ( exit early ) statement in the "foreach" block in
> > Smarty 2?
> >
> > I have been reading the documentation and I don't seem to see that kind
> > of functionality.
> >
> >
> > Basically, I have a database read providing the array of data being
> > displayed, but I want to stop displaying after a certain number of
> > items, rather than blindly displaying everything, no matter what.
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Brian
> >
> >
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