<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >append()</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="Smarty Class Methods()" HREF="api.functions.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="append_by_ref()" HREF="api.append.by.ref.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.functions.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="api.append.by.ref.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="api.append" ></A >append()</H1 ><DIV CLASS="refnamediv" ><A NAME="AEN5372" ></A >append() -- append an element to an assigned array</DIV ><DIV CLASS="refsect1" ><A NAME="AEN5375" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 >void <B CLASS="methodname" >append</B > ( mixed var)<BR ></BR >void <B CLASS="methodname" >append</B > ( string varname, mixed var [, bool merge])<BR ></BR ><P > If you append to a string value, it is converted to an array value and then appended to. You can explicitly pass name/value pairs, or associative arrays containing the name/value pairs. If you pass the optional third parameter of <TT CLASS="constant" >TRUE</TT >, the value will be merged with the current array instead of appended. </P ><DIV CLASS="note" ><BLOCKQUOTE CLASS="note" ><P ><B >Technical Note: </B > The <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >merge</I ></TT > parameter respects array keys, so if you merge two numerically indexed arrays, they may overwrite each other or result in non-sequential keys. This is unlike the PHP <A HREF="http://php.net/array_merge" TARGET="_top" > <TT CLASS="varname" >array_merge()</TT ></A > function which wipes out numerical keys and renumbers them. </P ></BLOCKQUOTE ></DIV ><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" CLASS="EXAMPLE" ><TR ><TD ><DIV CLASS="example" ><A NAME="AEN5403" ></A ><P ><B >Example 13-1. append</B ></P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" CELLPADDING="5" ><TR ><TD ><code><span style="color: #000000"> <span style="color: #0000BB"><?php<br /></span><span style="color: #FF8000">// This is effectively the same as assign()<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">$smarty</span><span style="color: #007700">-></span><span style="color: #0000BB">append</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'foo'</span><span style="color: #007700">, </span><span style="color: #DD0000">'Fred'</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /></span><span style="color: #FF8000">// After this line, foo will now be seen as an array in the template<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">$smarty</span><span style="color: #007700">-></span><span style="color: #0000BB">append</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'foo'</span><span style="color: #007700">, </span><span style="color: #DD0000">'Albert'</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /><br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">$array </span><span style="color: #007700">= array(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">1 </span><span style="color: #007700">=> </span><span style="color: #DD0000">'one'</span><span style="color: #007700">, </span><span style="color: #0000BB">2 </span><span style="color: #007700">=> </span><span style="color: #DD0000">'two'</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">$smarty</span><span style="color: #007700">-></span><span style="color: #0000BB">append</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'X'</span><span style="color: #007700">, </span><span style="color: #0000BB">$array</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">$array2 </span><span style="color: #007700">= array(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">3 </span><span style="color: #007700">=> </span><span style="color: #DD0000">'three'</span><span style="color: #007700">, </span><span style="color: #0000BB">4 </span><span style="color: #007700">=> </span><span style="color: #DD0000">'four'</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /></span><span style="color: #FF8000">// The following line will add a second element to the X array<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">$smarty</span><span style="color: #007700">-></span><span style="color: #0000BB">append</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'X'</span><span style="color: #007700">, </span><span style="color: #0000BB">$array2</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /><br /></span><span style="color: #FF8000">// passing an associative array<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">$smarty</span><span style="color: #007700">-></span><span style="color: #0000BB">append</span><span style="color: #007700">(array(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'city' </span><span style="color: #007700">=> </span><span style="color: #DD0000">'Lincoln'</span><span style="color: #007700">, </span><span style="color: #DD0000">'state' </span><span style="color: #007700">=> </span><span style="color: #DD0000">'Nebraska'</span><span style="color: #007700">));<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">?></span> </span> </code></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><P >See also <A HREF="api.append.by.ref.html" ><TT CLASS="varname" >append_by_ref()</TT ></A >, <A HREF="api.assign.html" ><TT CLASS="varname" >assign()</TT ></A > and <A HREF="api.get.template.vars.html" ><TT CLASS="varname" >get_template_vars()</TT ></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.functions.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.append.by.ref.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >Smarty Class Methods()</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" >append_by_ref()</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >
