Smarty

[mythology]

[mohrt]

This is usually a problem with relative paths to the smarty directories. Smarty will try to find the directories relative to the executed script. It is usually less error-prone to provide absolute paths to them:

$smarty->template_dir = '/path/to/templates';
$smarty->compile_dir = '/path/to/templates_c';
$smarty->cache_dir = '/path/to/cache';
$smarty->config_dir = '/path/to/configs';

Or for a bit more flexible install, setup a constant, something like:

define('MY_PATH', dirname(__FILE__));

$smarty->template_dir = MY_PATH . '/templates';
$smarty->compile_dir = MY_PATH . '/templates_c';
$smarty->cache_dir = MY_PATH . '/cache';
$smarty->config_dir = MY_PATH . '/configs';

If you're running windows, path name syntax adjustments do apply, of course.

[mohrt]

Where is your template directory again? You mentioned ./site/templates/cedar_red/intro.tpl, although your directory layout suggests ./templates/cedar_red/intro.tpl. Make sure your template_dir path is correct, then you execute:

$smarty->display('cedar_red/intro.tpl');

[mythology]

Awesome, that got it. Thanks!

The only problem I'm having now is it won't pull the information from my datbase:

[boots]

{$site.title} == array('site'=>array('title'=>value));

Thus:

$site['title'] = $site_title;
$template -> assign('site', $site);

[mythology]

lol, boots, you lost me.

I wanted to see if it would work without any interaction from the DB or anything so I tried this:

[boots]

Hey-o, don't mind me, its actually very simple. When you say {$foo.bar} in a template, you are saying "from the array $foo, return the item with key 'bar'". That's inside a template. In your PHP code (including the functions and methods that are part of Smarty) you need to use regular array syntax. So to set the template var $foo.bar, you have to assign to Smarty something like:

$smarty->assign('foo', array('bar'=>'xyz'));

This assigns the $foo template variable as an array with an element whose key is 'bar'. My earlier example was meant to demonstrate essentially the same thing but I guess I had --terse-mode=9 .

Cheers!

[mythology]

lol, it was starting to piss me off that it wouldn't work, but then i realized it was the cache that wasn't changing it for one reason or another in my browser. Thanks for the replies.

Anyway, now that I've got it where it will grab the information... it's doing something weird now:

[boots]

That's because mysql_query() returns a resource handle, not a result-set.

Better take another look at http://php.net/manual/en/ref.mysql.php