I can see both points of few there, and yes when i was learning VB the guy who taught me , well lets just say he was quite forthcoming on the yelling if i had more code on my form then i needed.
And There is of course nothing wrong with making someone learning proper coding standards (unless of course your sloppy on purpose for job security
) So i suppose I will give smarty a try, but have hit a small bump, am having trouble setting it up with my xmapp.The windows documentation seems to be scarce at best.
So here is the documentation i found for installing smarty in windows
Installing Smarty in Windows
http://news.php.net/php.smarty.dev/2703This document assumes that your webserver and php5 is running.
Download Smarty -
http://smarty.php.netInstallation - Windows, IIS/Apache, PHP5
Extract files, rename Smarty.x.x.x to smarty (suggest OUTSIDE of your www root!)
Example: d:\smarty
Run phpinfo.php to find out your php.ini location
Edit php.ini's include_path and add the location of the libs folder.
example: include_path = ".;d:\smarty\libs"
Restart IIS/Apache
Setup these two folders INSIDE your www root:
(wwwroot)/smarty/templates (this is where your templates will go)
(wwwroot)/smarty/configs
Setup these two folders OUTSIDE of your www root:
d:/smarty/templates_c
d:/smarty/cache
Setup security settings for the webserver to write to these four folders
In (wwwroot) create index.php and in (wwwroot)/smarty/templates/index.tpl with the following code:
index.php:
<?php
// load Smarty library
require('Smarty.class.php');
$smarty = new Smarty;
$smarty->template_dir = 'd:/inetpub/wwwroot/smarty/templates';
$smarty->config_dir = ' d:/inetpub/wwwroot/smarty/config';
$smarty->cache_dir = 'd:/smarty/smarty_cache';
$smarty->compile_dir = 'd:/smarty/smarty_templates_c';
$smarty->assign('name','fish boy!');
$smarty->display('index.tpl');
?>
index.tpl
<html>
<body>
Hello, {$name}!
</body>
</html>
Now open index.php in your web browser (requested from your webserver)
http://webserver/index.phpYou can work this out to a referenced script/class:
smarty_connect.php:
<?php
// load Smarty library
require('Smarty.class.php');
class smarty_connect extends Smarty
{
function smarty_connect()
{
// Class Constructor.
// These automatically get set with each new instance.
$this->Smarty();
$this->template_dir = ' d:/inetpub/wwwroot/smarty/templates';
$this->config_dir = ' d:/inetpub/wwwroot/smarty/config';
$this->compile_dir = 'd:/smarty/templates_c';
$this->cache_dir = 'd:/smarty/cache';
$this->assign('app_name', 'Intranet');
}
}
?>
index.php:
<?php
require('smarty_connect.php');
$smarty = new smarty_connect;
$smarty->assign('name','Ned');
$smarty->display('index.tpl');
?>
index.tpl:
<html>
<body>
Hello, {$name}!
</body>
</html>
If you are getting an error that Smarty.class.php isn't found chances are that your include_path isn't correct or you didn't edit the one that the webserver is using, check your phpinfo.php!
Now i have edited the php.ini for the includes,Where i catch the bump is the index.tpl and index.php
This write up is not exactly beginner friendly.
Now what i get from this is I am to create index.php in my htdocs with no code in the file itself
Then creating index.tpl with the code suggested in it
now it says the location is in templates,when it only had me create a template_c folder, so should I have both folders, or is only template_c needed.And for the second dilemma
$smarty->template_dir = 'd:/inetpub/wwwroot/smarty/templates';
$smarty->config_dir = ' d:/inetpub/wwwroot/smarty/config';
$smarty->cache_dir = 'd:/smarty/smarty_cache';
$smarty->compile_dir = 'd:/smarty/smarty_templates_c';
am assuming I am to change this to my settings which would be
$smarty->template_dir = 'c:/C:/xampp/htdocs/smarty/templates';
$smarty->config_dir = ' c:/C:/xampp/htdocs/smarty/config';
$smarty->cache_dir = 'c:/smarty/smarty_cache';
$smarty->compile_dir = 'c:/smarty/smarty_templates_c';
