Anyone use Smarty?

Peter B

I've inherited a site which uses smarty and I'm trying to edit the pages. When I edit the .tpl files an error comes up.

How do I edit smarty template pages? I've had a look on smarty.net but at a quick glance can't find anything. Need to get this problem sorted asap.

Evil Phil

I'm going to move this over to the design forum, you're bound to get an answer over there.

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Evil Phil wrote: »

I'm going to move this over to the design forum, you're bound to get an answer over there.

It's a development question though, not really a design one. I've heard of Smarty but I can tell you that it's mainly developers who know anything about it.

Peter B

The page I am editing is http://tipoff.ie/users/userLogin.php

As soon as I make any change to the userLogin.tpl page, even if it is just to insert a space (which should make no difference to the code at all). I get the following error.

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Fatal error: Smarty error: unable to write to $compile_dir '/var/www/vhosts/tipoff.ie/httpdocs/smarty/demo/templates_c'. Be sure $compile_dir is writable by the web server user. in /var/www/vhosts/tipoff.ie/httpdocs/smarty/libs/Smarty.class.php on line 1095
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waitinforatrain

There's some setup you have to do for Smarty. If the error is right you probably have to FTP into the site, and CHMOD (change permissions) on the /var/www/vhosts/tipoff.ie/httpdocs/smarty/demo/templates_c folder to make it writeable.

I've only mucked around with it, but I think there's an option in the config file where it will cache files and only try to compile them into a more efficient format in a different folder whenever it detects changes in a file.

I may be totally confusing this with Drupal though now that I think of it.

I need to sleep!

Peter B

waitinforatrain wrote: »

There's some setup you have to do for Smarty. If the error is right you probably have to FTP into the site, and CHMOD (change permissions) on the /var/www/vhosts/tipoff.ie/httpdocs/smarty/demo/templates_c folder to make it writeable.

I've only mucked around with it, but I think there's an option in the config file where it will cache files and only try to compile them into a more efficient format in a different folder whenever it detects changes in a file.

I may be totally confusing this with Drupal though now that I think of it.

I need to sleep!

Thanks. I had already tried to change the permissions to 755 but that didn't work. Seems to work when I changed the permissions to 777.

Thanks for the help!