can't get a parent blocks content

[matterk]

I posted in the forum but the mailing list might be a better spot.

I found the syntax here:
http://www.phpinsider.com/smarty-forum/viewtopic.php?t=15162

Which says {$smarty.block.foo.parent} should give you the parent
blocks content.

But after looking in
Smarty_Internal_Compile_Internal_Smarty_Var::compile() it looks like
the syntax for accessing a parent blocks content is something like
this?

{$smarty.block.parent.foo}

But regardless of which one I use I still can't seem to get the
content.

After a little more debugging the block_data[] (in
Smarty_Internal_Compile_Internal_Smarty_Var::compile() line #87) array
seems to be empty.

Any ideas?

[U.Tews]

{$smarty.block.parent.foo} is the correct syntax.

Could you please post how your templates look like to trace your main
problem down?

Regards Uwe

[matterk]

Using trunk/distribution/demo/index.php I changed php:index_view.php
to index.tpl

file: base.tpl
{block name="content"}
this is base.tpl
{/block}

file: index.tpl
{extend file="base.tpl"}
{block name="content"}
this is index.tpl
{$smarty.block.parent.content}
{/block}

output:
this is index.tpl

Although I also just found this syntax, which seems to work.

{block name="content" append=true}new content{/block}

[U.Tews]

You had the tag in the wrong file.

file: base.tpl
{block name="content"}

{$smarty.block.parent.content}
this is base.tpl
{/block}

[Doug]

I don't understand. I thought base.tpl IS the parent block.

[matterk]

Yeah, I guess I was just thinking about the inheritance incorrectly.
Thanks!