This was not obvious to me nor apparently anyone else trying to use preg_match in Smarty so I thought I’d share the solution. Given $href=’home.php?cat=1′ and trying to get 1 out of it:
{if "/cat=(\d+)/"|preg_match:$href:$match} {$href = "My-Page-`$match.1`.html"} {/if}
If you are a Smarty expert then this will be very dumb. I knew about the cool Smarty tag, strip, but hadn’t found a really good use for it. When you are using Smarty you are changing the how the HTML is created when the page is loaded. In some cases, how the code is formatted affects how the browser displays it, especially for IE. One of the most common areas I’ve seen this is when formatting using an indented structure and having an image at the end of a block. By having the closing block tag (/div, /td, etc.) on a new line an extra bit of space is added behind or below the image. This extra space is usually noticeable and causes page rendering differences among browsers. Here is an example of this piece of code:
<img src="myimage.gif" alt="" /> </div>
A look-at-my-new-blog post is pretty typical for a first post, but I really do want you to look at mine. It’s because my awesome wife designed it as a surprise just for me! I had mentioned wanting to start a blog and she came up with this design. It’s just another excellent example of her great sense of design and ability. Thanks Cherie!
