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Allow Smarty to Call Static Methods

I don't quite understand why they don't allow static methods -- it seems like static methods would be a more obvious choice to allow than to disallow in a templating system. Add this to your object that extends the main Smarty object enable.

See the original forum post for more on this:

	function _parse_attrs( $tag_args )
    {
      $attrs = parent::_parse_attrs( $tag_args );

      foreach( $attrs as $key=>$value )
      {
         // perhaps this was intended as a static callback?
         if( preg_match( '#^["\']([a-zA-Z_]\w*::[a-zA-Z_]\w*)\((.*)?\)["\']$#', $value, $matches ) )
         {
            $arguments = '()';
            if( isset( $matches[2] ) )
            {
               // strip '".' and '."' from beginning and end
               $arguments = substr( $matches[2], 2, -2 );

               // remove '.",".' from between parameters
               $arguments = explode( '.",".', $arguments );

               // combine arguments into string
               $arguments = '('.implode( ',', $arguments ).')';
            }

            $attrs[$key] = $matches[1].$arguments;
         }
      }
      return $attrs;
   }

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PHP Headers for IE Over SSL

To get a file to download properly in Internet Explorer, you gotta send the right headers. It took a little digging around to find:

header("Pragma: private");
header("Cache-control: private, must-revalidate");
header("Content-Type: your/application-type'");

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ActionScript2.0

A Connection object. [ Get file ]

  // Free to use. Just include my name and website somewhere.
  // Copyright, 2005 Andrew Ettinger. http://frugalprogrammer.com
  
  var CONNECTED = 1;
  var NOT_CONNECTED = 0;

  // generic socket connection class
  class Connection 
  {
  	public port:Number;
  	public host:String;
  	public socket;
  	public state;

  	// create a new connection
  	//	if host and port, then it will auto connect.
  	public function Connection(host, port) {
  		this.socket = new XMLSocket();
		this.host = host;
		this.port = port;
  		if (host != undefined && port != undefined)
  		{
  			this.connect();
  		}
  	}	

  	// connect to the host and port
  	public function connect():Void
  	{
  		this.socket.connect(this.host, this.port);
  		this.socket.onConnect = this.setConnectionState;
  		this.socket.onXML = this.receive;
  		this.socket.onClose = this.closeConnection;
  	}

  	// close down the connection;
  	public function closeConnection():Void
  	{
  		this.socket = null;
  		this.setConnectionState(false);
  	}

  	// set whether or not we are connected
  	public function setConnectionState(gotConnection):Void
  	{
  		if (gotConnection)
  			this.state = CONNECTED;
  		else
  			this.state = NOT_CONNECTED;
  	}

  	// receive some xml from the server
  	public function receive( input ):XML
  	{
  		return input;
  	}

  	// send a string as xml to the server
  	public function send( output ):Void
  	{
  		this.socket.send( new XML(output) );
  	}

  } // end connection