<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >register_function()</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="register_compiler_function()" HREF="api.register.compiler.function.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="register_modifier()" HREF="api.register.modifier.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.register.compiler.function.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.modifier.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="api.register.function" ></A >register_function()</H1 ><DIV CLASS="refnamediv" ><A NAME="AEN6145" ></A >register_function() -- dynamically register template function plugins</DIV ><DIV CLASS="refsect1" ><A NAME="AEN6148" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 >void <B CLASS="methodname" >register_function</B > ( string name, mixed impl [, bool cacheable [, mixed cache_attrs]])<BR ></BR ><P > Pass in the <A HREF="plugins.functions.html" >template function</A > name, followed by the PHP function name that implements it. </P ><P > The php-function callback <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >function</I ></TT > can be either: <P ></P ><UL ><LI ><P > A string containing the function <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >name</I ></TT > </P ></LI ><LI ><P > An array of the form <TT CLASS="literal" >array(&$object, $method)</TT > with <TT CLASS="literal" >&$object</TT > being a reference to an object and <TT CLASS="literal" >$method</TT > being a string containing the method-name </P ></LI ><LI ><P > An array of the form <TT CLASS="literal" >array(&$class, $method)</TT > with <TT CLASS="literal" >$class</TT > being the class name and <TT CLASS="literal" >$method</TT > being a method of the class. </P ></LI ></UL > </P ><P > <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >cacheable</I ></TT > and <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >cache_attrs</I ></TT > can be omitted in most cases. See <A HREF="caching.cacheable.html" >controlling cacheability of plugins output</A > on how to use them properly. </P ><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" CLASS="EXAMPLE" ><TR ><TD ><DIV CLASS="example" ><A NAME="AEN6187" ></A ><P ><B >Example 13-1. register_function()</B ></P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" CELLPADDING="5" ><TR ><TD ><code><span style="color: #000000"> <span style="color: #0000BB"><?php<br />$smarty</span><span style="color: #007700">-></span><span style="color: #0000BB">register_function</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'date_now'</span><span style="color: #007700">, </span><span style="color: #DD0000">'print_current_date'</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /><br />function </span><span style="color: #0000BB">print_current_date</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$params</span><span style="color: #007700">, &</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$smarty</span><span style="color: #007700">)<br />{<br /> if(empty(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$params</span><span style="color: #007700">[</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'format'</span><span style="color: #007700">])) {<br /> </span><span style="color: #0000BB">$format </span><span style="color: #007700">= </span><span style="color: #DD0000">"%b %e, %Y"</span><span style="color: #007700">;<br /> } else {<br /> </span><span style="color: #0000BB">$format </span><span style="color: #007700">= </span><span style="color: #0000BB">$params</span><span style="color: #007700">[</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'format'</span><span style="color: #007700">];<br /> }<br /> return </span><span style="color: #0000BB">strftime</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$format</span><span style="color: #007700">,</span><span style="color: #0000BB">time</span><span style="color: #007700">());<br />}<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">?></span> </span> </code></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><P > And in the template </P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" CELLPADDING="5" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="programlisting" >{date_now} {* or to format differently *} {date_now format="%Y/%m/%d"}</PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><P > See also <A HREF="api.unregister.function.html" ><TT CLASS="varname" >unregister_function()</TT ></A > and the <A HREF="plugins.functions.html" >plugin functions</A > section. </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.register.compiler.function.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.modifier.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >register_compiler_function()</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_modifier()</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >