| 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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| 11 | |
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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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| 26 | |
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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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| 36 | |
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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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| 51 | |
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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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| 69 | |
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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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| 77 | |
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| 78 | ?> |
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| 79 | |
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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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| 97 | |
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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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| 101 | |
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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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