Question

I want to alternate whether HTML code A shows before code B based on a boolean.

Somewhat like:

{if $switch}B A{else}A B{/if}

However, considering A and B are actually long parts of HTML+Smarty code, I don’t want to add them twice for the sake of maintainability.

How would I go about doing that?

Answer 1

{capture}

{capture} is used to collect the output of the template between the tags into a variable instead of displaying it. Any content between {capture name=’foo’} and {/capture} is collected into the variable specified in the name attribute.

Source

{* template *}

{capture name=parta assign=parta}
    foo
{/capture}

{capture name=partb assign=partb}
    bar
{/capture}

{if $switch}
    {$partb} {$parta}
{else}
    {$parta} {$partb}
{/if}