Question

I am trying to display error messages by assigning the SMARTY variable $error in the form of:

function validate1() {
  $error['title'] = "Title contains illegal characters...";
  $this->smarty->append('error', $error);
}
function validate2() {
  $error['time'] = "Please enter a time in 12 hour clock (12:30 PM) format.";
  $this->smarty->append('error', $error);
}

My HTML looks like:

<p class="message-error">{$error['title']}</p>
<p class="message-error">{$error['time']}</p>

I had recently been using the code below, which works; is there any way that I can modify the first block of code to work the same as the code below?

$error['title'] = "Title contains illegal characters...";
$error['time'] = "Please enter a time in 12 hour clock (12:30 PM) format.";
$this->smarty->assign("error", $error);

Answer 1

Does it work if you define the array this way and include the merge option (3rd param to append())

function validate1() {
  $error = array('title' => "Title contains illegal characters...");
  $this->smarty->append('error', $error, TRUE);
  // -------------------------------------^^^^
}

EDIT Forgot to include the merge parameter.