Smarty Template

Smarty Template Introduction

Musavir Iftekhar

Installation • Download form site.. www.smarty.net/ • Unzip and put smarty directory under your home directory

Using •

Better to create your own folders of templates else using default.


define('SMARTY_DIR', 'smarty/' ); require_once(SMARTY_DIR . 'Smarty.class.php'); $smarty = new Smarty(); $smarty->template_dir = './templates/'; $smarty->compile_dir = './templates/compile/'; $smarty->cache_dir = './templates/cache/'; $smarty->caching = false; ?>

Common syntax $val = “some value”; $smarty->assign(“smarty_sending_var”, $val); $smarty->display(“page.tpl”);//page in template folder ------------------------------------------------------Page.tpl {* these are comments of smarty *} {$smarty_sending_var} // will show contents of sending values from the page

Variable Modifiers {$var|modifier} {$title|capitalize} output: MYTITLE {$title|count_words} output: 55 {$dt, “%B %e, %Y”} output: December 22, 2005 {$title|default:”some val”} output: if $title = null then some val {$title|strip_tags} output: remove html tags from string {$title|truncate:20} output: show reduce to 20 characters

Control Structures {if $var qualifier comprator} Output {elseif $var qualifier comprator} Output {else} Output {/if}

$my_array = array(‘val1’, ‘val2’, ‘val3’); $smarty->assign(“array_val”, $my_array); Handle in into template as {foreach from=$my_array item=valout} {$valout} {/foreach} If no value in array.. then {foreach from=$my_array item=valout} {$valout} {foreachesles} Output here {/foreach}

Section $titles = arrray(‘a’, ‘b’, ‘c’); $smarty->assign(“titles”, $titles); $smarty->display(“titles.tpl”); --------------------titles.tpl-------------------{section name=book loop=$titles} {$titles[book]} {/section} Output:abc

$titles = arrray(‘title’=>’Eng’, ‘author’=>’Master’, ‘pub’=>’apex’); $smarty->assign(“titles”, $titles); $smarty->display(“titles.tpl”); --------------------titles.tpl-------------------{section name=book loop=$titles} {$titles[book].title} {$titles[book].author} {$titles[book].pub} {/section} Output:Eng Master apex

sectionelse $titles = arrray(‘a’, ‘b’, ‘c’); $smarty->assign(“titles”, $titles); $smarty->display(“titles.tpl”); --------------------titles.tpl-------------------{section name=book loop=$titles} {$titles[book]} {sectionelse} Output: if array = null {/section} Output:abc

Include {include file=“/usr/local/lib/pmnp/header.tpl”} {* Execute some other Smarty statements here. *} {include file=“/usr/local/temps/footer.tpl”} {include file=“/local/header.tpl” title=“My home page”}

Insert • Insert some advertisement page function insert_banner(){ } ------------------tpl file----------------------------

CSS with literal tag Insert css into tpl file directly {literal}<style type=“text/css”> P{Margin: 5px;} {/literal} User Link to connect with outer css file

Caches $smarty->caching = 1