smarty/docs/programmers/api-functions/api-append.md

append()

append an element to an assigned array

Description

void

append

mixed

var

void

append

string

varname

mixed

var

bool

merge

If you append to a string value, it is converted to an array value and then appended to. You can explicitly pass name/value pairs, or associative arrays containing the name/value pairs. If you pass the optional third parameter of TRUE, the value will be merged with the current array instead of appended.

NOTE.PARAMETER.MERGE

<?php
// This is effectively the same as assign()
$smarty->append('foo', 'Fred');
// After this line, foo will now be seen as an array in the template
$smarty->append('foo', 'Albert');

$array = array(1 => 'one', 2 => 'two');
$smarty->append('X', $array);
$array2 = array(3 => 'three', 4 => 'four');
// The following line will add a second element to the X array
$smarty->append('X', $array2);

// passing an associative array
$smarty->append(array('city' => 'Lincoln', 'state' => 'Nebraska'));
?>

See also appendByRef(), assign() and getTemplateVars()