How to loop over an array in Smarty/Prestashop? - php

Question

I use this code in Prestashop
{if (strpos($product.name, 'TVNUMBER1') !== false)}
THIS PRODUCT IS IN SALE
{/if}
So whenever I want to display that certain products are in sale, I have to go line by line, specifying the same product i.e."TVNUMBER1". I want to be able to write an array detailing all the products I have in sale "TV1, TV2, TV3", and get a code like this:
{if (strpos($product.name, '$array') !== false)}
THIS PRODUCT IS IN SALE
{/if}
I've tried similar examples found here, but I can't get them to work, either in Prestashop or in PHP testers online. It looks super simple, but I can't get around it.

Answer 1

I think what you want is the in_array php function, that check if a given $needle is or not in an array.
So what you should do is :
{if (in_array($product.name, '$array') !== false)}
THIS PRODUCT IS IN SALE
{/if}
Then in your controller you can assign the array to smarty :
$arr = array('TVNUMBER1', 'TVNUMBER2', 'TVNUMBER3');
$smarty->assign('myArray', $arr);

Answer 2

It seems you are using Smarty as template engine. So you could do something like this (from the doc).
In the controller
//Give it to the view
$arr = array('TVNUMBER1', 'TVNUMBER2');
$smarty->assign('myArray', $arr);
And in the view
//In the view, loop over the array
{foreach from=$myArray item=productName}
//If your product is among the in-sale ones, show the message
{if (strpos($product.name, productName) !== false)}
THIS PRODUCT IS IN SALE
{/if}
{/foreach}