<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >Combining Modifiers</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 For Template Designers" HREF="smarty.for.designers.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="wordwrap" HREF="language.modifier.wordwrap.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="Built-in Functions" HREF="language.builtin.functions.html"><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="chapter" 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="language.modifier.wordwrap.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="language.builtin.functions.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><DIV CLASS="chapter" ><H1 ><A NAME="language.combining.modifiers" ></A >Chapter 6. Combining Modifiers</H1 ><P > You can apply any number of modifiers to a variable. They will be applied in the order they are combined, from left to right. They must be separated with a <TT CLASS="literal" >|</TT > (pipe) character. </P ><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" CLASS="EXAMPLE" ><TR ><TD ><DIV CLASS="example" ><A NAME="AEN1460" ></A ><P ><B >Example 6-1. combining modifiers</B ></P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" CELLPADDING="5" ><TR ><TD ><code><span style="color: #000000"> <span style="color: #0000BB"><?php<br /><br />$smarty</span><span style="color: #007700">-></span><span style="color: #0000BB">assign</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'articleTitle'</span><span style="color: #007700">, </span><span style="color: #DD0000">'Smokers are Productive, but Death Cuts Efficiency.'</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /><br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">?></span> </span> </code></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><P > where template is: </P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" CELLPADDING="5" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="programlisting" >{$articleTitle} {$articleTitle|upper|spacify} {$articleTitle|lower|spacify|truncate} {$articleTitle|lower|truncate:30|spacify} {$articleTitle|lower|spacify|truncate:30:". . ."}</PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><P > The above example will output: </P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" CELLPADDING="5" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="screen" >Smokers are Productive, but Death Cuts Efficiency. S M O K E R S A R ....snip.... H C U T S E F F I C I E N C Y . s m o k e r s a r ....snip.... b u t d e a t h c u t s... s m o k e r s a r e p r o d u c t i v e , b u t . . . s m o k e r s a r e p. . .</PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></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="language.modifier.wordwrap.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="language.builtin.functions.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >wordwrap</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="smarty.for.designers.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >Built-in Functions</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >