How to get COOKIE in Smarty

Question

When User already login, i want to show some link in page

<{if(!empty($_COOKIE['USER']))}>
   <a href="domain.com/page-a.html">TEXT A</a>
<{else}> <a href="domain.com/page-b.html">TEXT B</a>
<{/if}>    

but does not work

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Found the answer myself, just replace :

<{if(!empty($_COOKIE['USER']))}>

with

<{if $smarty.cookies.USER!=''}>

Yihaaa !!!

Symons

Answer 1

For me it's rather not good practice to do it that way.

You should do it in PHP:

if (!empty($_COOKIE['USER'])) {
   $smarty->assign('page','a');
}
else {
   $smarty->assign('page','b');
}

And then in Smarty:

{if $page eq 'a'}
<a href="domain.com/page-a.html">TEXT A</a>
{else}
<a href="domain.com/page-b.html">TEXT B</a>
{/if}

What's the benefit of such attitude? In template you don't care how $page is calculated. It may be calculated by session or by any other reason and template just don't care because it's only care about $page value. If you decide to change implementation you will need only change it in PHP and not in both PHP and Smarty.

You could also consider using $_SESSION instead of $_COOKIE - what if user changes/set his cookie value? He will get access to page b even if he shouldn't have such access.

Nial

Nothing wrong with using cookies in the template... especially considering, as OP mentioned, you can use $smarty.cookies to access them. – Quigley

Answer is not a solution to the problem, it is a recommendation to not to have problem in general. Sometimes you may need to read cookies in template files, for instance in development to quickly check cookie and dump if debug mode – Magel

Answer 2

This is what you need.

{$smarty.cookies.$thecookiename} {if $smarty.cookies.foo == bar} Hello world {else} Haha {/if}

Implantation

Answer 3

Get the Cookies in Smarty using the below syntax

{$smarty.cookies.$cookiename}. $cookiename is the name of the cookie variable.

K

this answer has already been mentioned, make sure not to repost people's answers. – Implantation