<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >load_filter()</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="Smarty Manual" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="Smarty Class Methods()" HREF="api.functions.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="is_cached()" HREF="api.is.cached.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="register_block()" HREF="api.register.block.html"><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="refentry" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >Smarty Manual</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="api.is.cached.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="api.register.block.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="api.load.filter" ></A >load_filter()</H1 ><DIV CLASS="refnamediv" ><A NAME="AEN6016" ></A >load_filter() -- load a filter plugin</DIV ><DIV CLASS="refsect1" ><A NAME="AEN6019" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 >void <B CLASS="methodname" >load_filter</B > ( string type, string name)<BR ></BR ><P > The first argument specifies the type of the filter to load and can be one of the following: <TT CLASS="literal" >pre</TT >, <TT CLASS="literal" >post</TT > or <TT CLASS="literal" >output</TT >. The second argument specifies the <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >name</I ></TT > of the filter plugin. </P ><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" CLASS="EXAMPLE" ><TR ><TD ><DIV CLASS="example" ><A NAME="AEN6035" ></A ><P ><B >Example 13-1. Loading filter plugins</B ></P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" CELLPADDING="5" ><TR ><TD ><code><span style="color: #000000"> <span style="color: #0000BB"><?php<br /><br /></span><span style="color: #FF8000">// load prefilter named 'trim'<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">$smarty</span><span style="color: #007700">-></span><span style="color: #0000BB">load_filter</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'pre'</span><span style="color: #007700">, </span><span style="color: #DD0000">'trim'</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /><br /></span><span style="color: #FF8000">// load another prefilter named 'datefooter'<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">$smarty</span><span style="color: #007700">-></span><span style="color: #0000BB">load_filter</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'pre'</span><span style="color: #007700">, </span><span style="color: #DD0000">'datefooter'</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /><br /></span><span style="color: #FF8000">// load output filter named 'compress'<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">$smarty</span><span style="color: #007700">-></span><span style="color: #0000BB">load_filter</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'output'</span><span style="color: #007700">, </span><span style="color: #DD0000">'compress'</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /><br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">?></span> </span> </code></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><P > See also <A HREF="api.register.prefilter.html" ><TT CLASS="varname" >register_prefilter()</TT ></A >, <A HREF="api.register.postfilter.html" ><TT CLASS="varname" >register_postfilter()</TT ></A >, <A HREF="api.register.outputfilter.html" ><TT CLASS="varname" >register_outputfilter()</TT ></A >, <A HREF="variable.autoload.filters.html" ><TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >$autoload_filters</I ></TT ></A > and <A HREF="advanced.features.html" >advanced features</A >. </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="api.is.cached.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="api.register.block.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >is_cached()</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="api.functions.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >register_block()</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >