1 | This is a simple guide to get Smarty setup and running quickly. The online |
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2 | documentation includes a very thorough explanation of a Smarty installation. |
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3 | This guide is meant to be a quick and painless way of getting Smarty working, |
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4 | and nothing more. The guide assumes you are familiar with the UNIX system |
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5 | environment. Windows users will need to make adjustments where necessary. |
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6 | |
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7 | INSTALL SMARTY LIBRARY FILES |
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8 | |
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9 | Copy the Smarty library files to your system. In our example, we place them in |
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10 | /usr/local/lib/php/Smarty/ |
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12 | $> cd YOUR_DOWNLOAD_DIRECTORY |
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13 | $> gtar -ztvf Smarty-2.6.7.tar.gz |
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14 | $> mkdir /usr/local/lib/php/Smarty |
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15 | $> cp -r Smarty-2.6.7/libs/* /usr/local/lib/php/Smarty |
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16 | |
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17 | You should now have the following file structure: |
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18 | |
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19 | /usr/local/lib/php/Smarty/ |
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20 | Config_File.class.php |
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21 | debug.tpl |
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22 | internals/ |
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23 | plugins/ |
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24 | Smarty.class.php |
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25 | Smarty_Compiler.class.php |
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27 | |
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28 | SETUP SMARTY DIRECTORIES |
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29 | |
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30 | You will need four directories setup for Smarty to work. These files are for |
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31 | templates, compiled templates, cached templates and config files. You may or |
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32 | may not use caching or config files, but it is a good idea to set them up |
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33 | anyways. It is also recommended to place them outside of the web server |
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34 | document root. The web server PHP user will need write access to the cache and |
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35 | compile directories as well. |
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37 | In our example, the document root is /web/www.domain.com/docs and the |
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38 | web server username is "nobody". We will keep our Smarty files under |
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39 | /web/www.domain.com/smarty |
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40 | |
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41 | $> cd /web/www.domain.com |
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42 | $> mkdir smarty |
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43 | $> mkdir smarty/templates |
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44 | $> mkdir smarty/templates_c |
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45 | $> mkdir smarty/cache |
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46 | $> mkdir smarty/configs |
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47 | $> chown nobody:nobody smarty/templates_c |
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48 | $> chown nobody:nobody smarty/cache |
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49 | $> chmod 775 smarty/templates_c |
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50 | $> chmod 775 smarty/cache |
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52 | |
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53 | SETUP SMARTY PHP SCRIPTS |
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54 | |
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55 | Now we setup our application in the document root: |
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56 | |
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57 | $> cd /web/www.domain.com/docs |
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58 | $> mkdir myapp |
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59 | $> cd myapp |
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60 | $> vi index.php |
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61 | |
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62 | Edit the index.php file to look like the following: |
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63 | |
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64 | <?php |
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65 | |
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66 | // put full path to Smarty.class.php |
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67 | require('/usr/local/lib/php/Smarty/Smarty.class.php'); |
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68 | $smarty = new Smarty(); |
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70 | $smarty->template_dir = '/web/www.domain.com/smarty/templates'; |
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71 | $smarty->compile_dir = '/web/www.domain.com/smarty/templates_c'; |
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72 | $smarty->cache_dir = '/web/www.domain.com/smarty/cache'; |
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73 | $smarty->config_dir = '/web/www.domain.com/smarty/configs'; |
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74 | |
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75 | $smarty->assign('name', 'Ned'); |
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76 | $smarty->display('index.tpl'); |
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78 | ?> |
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80 | |
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81 | SETUP SMARTY TEMPLATE |
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82 | |
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83 | $> vi /web/www.domain.com/smarty/templates/index.tpl |
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84 | |
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85 | Edit the index.tpl file with the following: |
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86 | |
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87 | <html> |
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88 | <head> |
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89 | <title>Smarty</title> |
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90 | </head> |
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91 | <body> |
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92 | Hello, {$name}! |
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93 | </body> |
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94 | </html> |
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98 | Now go to your new application through the web browser, |
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99 | http://www.domain.com/myapp/index.php in our example. You should see the text |
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100 | "Hello Ned!" in your browser. |
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102 | Once you get this far, you can continue on to the Smarty Crash Course to learn |
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103 | a few more simple things, or on to the documentation to learn it all. |
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