Smarty

[thomas22]

Ok, so this maybe a stupid question, but I haven't been able to find the answer in the documentation or on the board, but whenever I try and do a link with the parameter href, smarty does not interpret it the way i want it. For example if I do this in the .tpl file

<a href="www.google.com">logout</a>

It does not actually link to www.google.com but the link is listed like this:

http://mydomain.com/www.google.com

What could be the problem? Any help is much appreciated. Thanks.

[andre]

That's the way HTML and HTTP works...

Try <a href="http://www.google.com">logout</a>. This should work. Otherwise your browser will think it's a relative url (e.g. http://mydomain.com/www.google.com) instead of an absolute one.

[thomas22]

I should have clarified. The behavior I described above also applies to linking to a CSS file and images. So for a link like this:

&lt;img src="header.gif"&gt;

or a link like this:

&lt;link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="layout.css" /&gt;

Smarty is looking for the header.gif and layout.css at these respective locations:

http://mydomain.com/header.gif
http://mydomain.com/layout.css

instead of looking for them in the same directory as the .tpl file. Whereas if it was straight html, it would look in the same directory as the .tpl file.

I'm just wondering if I have a configuration problem or if this is just how Smarty works and I would have to define something like this to link to the style sheet or images:

&lt;link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://mydomain.com/layoutDirectory/layout.css" /&gt;

Again, thank you for your help.

[messju]

smarty doesn't look after images or css files at all. your browser does. and it does it relative to the php-file you called that called $smarty->display() and not relative to where the templates are. the templates may be not accessible by the browser at all (below the webroot).

[thomas22]

Ok, thanks for the clarification and all the help.