Smarty Template Introduction Musavir Iftekhar

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

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. <?php 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; ?>

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

<?php

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

$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

{$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}

{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}

$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(‘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

$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

$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”}

{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----------------------------- <img src=“imgs/{insert name=“banner”}.gif”/>

Insert some advertisement page

function insert_banner(){

}

------------------tpl file-----------------------------

<img src=“imgs/{insert name=“banner”}.gif”/>

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

Insert css into tpl file directly

<html><head>

{literal}<style type=“text/css”>

P{Margin: 5px;}

</style>

{/literal}

</head>

User Link to connect with outer css file

<link style=“text/css” href=“mycss.css” />

Caches $smarty->caching = 1

$smarty->caching = 1