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  Posted: Jun 14, 2005 - 08:57 AM

  I've got the uid passing to a template and was wondering if there was a pnRender tag to convert it to an actual username...or should I just do it before the template and assign it?

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• markwest
  
  

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  Posted: Jun 14, 2005 - 09:15 AM

  John,
  
  You can do it either way (both are similar).
  
  PHP - $pnRender->assign('uname', pnUserGetVar('uname', $uid));
  template -
  
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• **unknown user**
  
  

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  Posted: Jun 14, 2005 - 09:17 AM

  Ah...very nice! Thanks Mark...

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• **unknown user**
  
  

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  Posted: Jun 14, 2005 - 09:18 AM

  Where is the best place to go for docs on pnRender tags...straight to the Smarty help? ...or is there something more nuke-specific?

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• markwest
  
  

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  Posted: Jun 14, 2005 - 09:24 AM

  In addition to the Smarty docs there's these which are linked from docs.postnuke.com. This is the documentation for .750 but will be updated shortly for .760 as there are some new and a few updated tags.
  
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• Simon
  
  

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  Posted: Jun 14, 2005 - 09:28 AM

  IMO it's best to pass the username to the template as a parameter and reference it by something obvious like
  
  I keep forgetting in the things I code that the aim of templating is seperation of the display stuff and the code, and so I personally think that the less 'code' in templates, the better.
  
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• markwest
  
  

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  Posted: Jun 14, 2005 - 09:31 AM

  HammerHead

  IMO it's best to pass the username to the template as a parameter and reference it by something obvious like
  
  I keep forgetting in the things I code that the aim of templating is seperation of the display stuff and the code, and so I personally think that the less 'code' in templates, the better.

  
  
  It depends... The trade off is that you're deciding that it's the username that should be displayed here. What if the site admin would prefer the real name displayed?
  
  We can't use the pnusergetvar plugin with only the username. The compromise is to assign both your choice (as the developer) and the user id.
  
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• Simon
  
  

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  Posted: Jun 14, 2005 - 09:41 AM

  Personally I'd assign most of the variables I used in the function to the template. If a designer wants to radically redesign the template they'll want all the variables available to use.
  
  Obviously, in an ideal situation, where you knew exactly what you wanted you wouldn't do this.
  
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  Posted: Jun 14, 2005 - 09:45 AM

  Luckily, in this case, all I need is the username, so it's not as complex a decision... :) Assigned to the template they will be...

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• Topiatic
  
  

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  Posted: Jun 14, 2005 - 04:00 PM

  I've found modules/pnRender/plugins to be a veritable treasure trove of functionality... mind the ones marked legacy.
  
  What i noticed even earlier today, is that there is a very slight performance hit for using smarty/pnRender over assigning the variable... like .02-3 secs every 4 out of 10 or so. Negligable, but it'll add up.
  
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• markwest
  
  

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  Posted: Jun 14, 2005 - 10:59 PM

  While there is the slight performance hit this is only when the template is executed. Don't forget that Smarty is designed as a caching template engine.
  
  Running .760 on my site i've got xanthia's full page caching enabled and have not found anything (for my small site) that i've needed to exclude from caching. There's a little bit of additional code in .760's xanthia (and now .750b) that checks for the post array having some content (a form submission) and will clear the cache for that module. In .760 (but not .750b) the logic also clears the cache for any hooked modules.
  
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  Posted: Jun 14, 2005 - 11:46 PM

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  Running .760 on my site i've got xanthia's full page caching enabled and have not found anything (for my small site) that i've needed to exclude from caching.

  
  
  Although it is possible to run something as dynamic as a forum using Xanthia's full page cache (I did this over at www.eurojamlive.org) you'll find that the 'latest post' indicators on PNphpBB are not refreshed as the index page of PNphpBB never receives POST content. Instead, you'll need to wait for the cache to expire.
  
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