Smarty

Why use Smarty?
 PHP is a template engine
 Separation of logic
◦ Reduced overhead in templating

What Smarty is not?
 NOT an application development
framework.
 NOT an MVC
 Smarty is the (V)iew component of
your application.

index.php index.tpl
include('Smarty.class.php');
$smarty = new Smarty;
$smarty->assign('name',
‘seth’);
$smarty->assign('address',
'45th & Harris');
$smarty->display('index.tpl');
<html>
<body>
User Information:
Name: {$name}
Address: {$address}
</body>
</html>

{assign}
index.php
$smarty->assign('name', ‘seth’);
$smarty->assign('address', '45th &
Harris');
index.tpl
Hi. My name is {$name}.
My address is {$address}.

{section}
index.php
$sangam = array(“prabha”,”lakshmi”);
$smarty->assign(“sangam”,$sangam);
index.tpl
{section name=member loop=$sangam}
{$sangam[member]}
{/section}

{foreach}
index.php
$arr = array(9 => 'Tennis', 3 => 'Swimming', 8 =>
'Coding');
$smarty->assign('myArray', $arr);
index.tpl
<ul>
{foreach from=$myArray key=k item=v}
<li>
{$k}: {$v}
</li>
{/foreach}
</ul>

{foreach}
index.php
$arr = array(9 => 'Tennis', 3 => 'Swimming', 8 =>
'Coding');
$smarty->assign('myArray', $arr);
index.tpl
<ul>
{foreach from=$myArray key=k item=v}
<li>
{$k}: {$v}
</li>
{/foreach}
</ul>
<ul>
<li>9: Tennis</li>
<li>3: Swimming</li>
<li>8: Coding</li>
</ul>

{foreach}
index.php
$smarty->assign(‘efforts', array(
array(
‘dev' => '1',
‘mnt' => '2',
‘qa' => '3'),
array(
‘dev' => ‘4',
‘mnt' => ‘5',
‘qa' => ‘6')
));

{foreach}
index.php
$smarty->assign(‘efforts', array(
array(
‘dev' => '1',
‘mnt' => '2',
‘qa' => '3'),
array(
‘dev' => ‘4',
‘mnt' => ‘5',
‘qa' => ‘6')
));
{foreach
name=outer
item=effort
from=$efforts}
{foreach
key=key
item=item
from=$effort}
{$key}: {$item} <br/>
{/foreach}
{/foreach}

Qualifier Smarty Syntax PHP Equivalent
== $a eq $b ==
!= $a neq $b !=
> $a gt $b >
< $a lt $b <
>= $a ge $b >=
<= $a le $b <=
=== $a === 0 ===
! not $a !
% $a mod $b %
Is [not] divisible by $a is not div by $b $a % $b == 0
Is [not] even $a is not even $a % 2 == 0
Is [not] even by $a is not even by $b ($a/$b)%2==0
Is [not] odd $a is not odd $a % 2 != 0
Is [not] odd by $a is not odd by $b ($a/$b)%2!=0

{if}{elseif}{else}
{if $name eq 'Blog'}
{* do something *}
{elseif $name eq $foo}
{* do something else *}
{/if}
{if is_array($foo) and count($foo) > 0}
{* do a foreach loop *}
{/if}

{capture}
{capture name=banner}
{include file='get_banner.tpl'}
{/capture}
{if $smarty.capture.banner ne ''}
<div id="banner">
{$smarty.capture.banner}
</div>
{/if}

{literal}
{literal}
<script type="text/javascript">
alert(“Hello World!”);
</script>
{/literal}
{literal}
<style type="text/css">
.container{
display:none;
}
</style>
{/literal}

{php}
{php}
global $foo, $bar;
if($foo == $bar){
echo 'This will be sent to browser';
}
$this->assign(‘flavor',‘Chocolate');
{/php}
{$flavor} is my fav ice cream :-)

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