Smarty

WARNING

The usage of smarty in new openemr code is officially deprecated. This page is only meant to collect smarty resources, so that other developers know what they are doing, when touching smarty code in OpenEMR.

Object useful for Forms

Smarty has been integrated into openemr for form generation functions, and as part of the calendaring system.

library/classes/Controller.class.php

Forms using the 'object oriented approach' are known to use the Controller class (or a descendant) to control smarty. they do this by supplying a template, and a series of values for smarty to intersperse within that template.

library/classes/ORDataObject.class.php

The ORDataObject class is meant to be used to model the data contained in a form.

The OrDataObject has the following variable members:

Variable	Use
_table	The sql table that the form stores its values in.