provide Modify Listing link on viewlisting page

[business +]

I am trying to provide a link on the viewlisting.tpl to allow the owner of the listing to modify the listing.

{if $smarty.session.username=$username}<a href="/usermodifylisting.php?view={$view}">Modify Listing</a>{/if}

The idea is: when the owner of the listing is viewing it, we provide a link to Modify it.

But the above code does not work.. I get the following error:

Fatal error: Smarty error: [in viewlisting2.tpl line 20]: syntax error: unidentified token '=' (Smarty_Compiler.class.php, line 1419) in /home/business/public_html/ibay.com.mv/includes/classes/smarty/Smarty.class.php on line 1092

what am i doing wrong? also, is there any risk in providing this feature.
thanks.

[Lhotch +]

Smarty

[business +]

i was able to do this:

{if "`$smarty.session.username`==`$username`"}<a href="/usermodifylisting.php?view={$view}">Modify Listing</a>{/if}

but the Modify Listing link is displayed on all listings pages... my thinking was display the link if the listing owner is equal to logged-in user.

[Lhotch +]

Have you checked the contents of your variables to begin with?

In other words if you put the following in a template to se what they provide what do you get?

{$smarty.session.username}

{$username}

[business +]

yes. I had already done that before I started writing the IF statement.

{$smarty.session.username} outputs the username of the logged-in user / current user

{$username} gives the username of the owner of the listing (i am using this in viewlisting2.tpl)


So, if the above two are equal/same, I am trying to put the Modify Listing link.

[John Snyder +]

Not sure why you are quoting and backticking stuff. So this doesn't work?

{if $smarty.session.username == $username}
<a href="/usermodifylisting.php?view={$view}">Modify Listing</a>
{/if}

[business +]

works great.
i swear i tried the same syntax before and got error... maybe i missed something .. thanks to the two of you...

[Lhotch +]

Originally Posted by juven14

Not sure why you are quoting and backticking stuff. So this doesn't work?

from the smarty docs...

Embedding Vars in Double Quotes

*

Smarty will recognize assigned variables embedded in "double quotes" so long as the variable name contains only numbers, letters, under_scores and brackets[]. See naming for more detail.
*

With any other characters, for example a .period or $object>reference, then the variable must be surrounded by `backticks`.
*

You cannot embed modifiers, they must always be applied outside of quotes.

Upon closer inspection of his original post however only has a single equal sign.

[John Snyder +]

Thanks for the doc Larry, I was aware you could use quotes, just wasn't sure why he was using them in that instance as it wasn't necessary.

[Lhotch +]

Originally Posted by juven14

Thanks for the doc Larry, I was aware you could use quotes, just wasn't sure why he was using them in that instance as it wasn't necessary.

I missed the fact he only had a single equal sign when he first posted and thought it was a different issue when I posted the link.