Currently, I am working with Smarty version 2.6.27 and facing an issue where PHP functions are unable to access global variables:
{php}
$a = "should be global";
function test(){
global $a;
echo $a;
}
test();
{/php}Despite trying to make the variable $a global within the function, it still doesn't work as expected. Additionally, I attempted the following approach:
{php}
$a = "should be global";
foreach ($GLOBALS as $key => $value) {
echo $key . "-" . $value;
}
{/php}Unfortunately, even in this case, $a does not show up in the list of PHP globals. This behavior seems to be related to how Smarty operates within a unique environment; the documentation mentions something similar:
To access PHP variables in {php} blocks you will need to use the PHP global keyword.
The primary concern is finding a way to utilize variables defined outside of functions inside the functions without expanding their scope or accessing other PHP globals. Since there are numerous such variables involved, passing them as parameters would not be practical.