PHP Software Developing » smarty http://www.phpdeveloping.co.za for the love of PHP Development Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:38:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 Smarty quick and dirty http://www.phpdeveloping.co.za/templates/smarty-quick-and-dirty.html http://www.phpdeveloping.co.za/templates/smarty-quick-and-dirty.html#comments Wed, 12 Aug 2009 19:44:56 +0000 chris http://www.phpdeveloping.co.za/?p=125 Smarty is an excellent template system used for PHP. It’s definitely the best and most versatile one I’ve seen.

Let’s say you have an index.tpl (the default template file extension in Smarty) with the following in it:

<html>
<head>
<title>Information</title>
</head>
<body>
Number 1: {$num1}<br>
Number 2: {$num2}<br>
</body>
</html>

Now, to actually use the template you would have code like the following:

$smarty = new Smarty;
$smarty->assign('num1', '111');
$smarty->assign('num2', '222');
$smarty->display('index.tpl');

As simple as that!

The output would be:

<html>
<head>
<title>Information</title>
</head>
<body>
Number 1: 111<br>
Number 2: 222<br>
</body>
</html>

That is just a simple example, and there are a lot more advanced things you can do with it. Check out the Smarty Crash Course for some ideas.

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