Ok I worked out the bugs. Hopefully this information will help other folks that want to install Smarty on Windows. I wish I had this info when I started, the documentation is geared towards *nix and is confusing but it was a good learning experience. (Thanks to boots for making the whole 'templates' folder click in my head)
Hopefully, Monte or the Smarty folks will include this info on their web or more importantly in the installation documentation in the Smarty download.
John
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Installing Smarty in Windows
This document assumes that your webserver and php5 is running.
Download Smarty - http://smarty.php.net
Installation - 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.php
You 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!