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Smarty Pants

Using the documentation I installed Smarty-2.5.0. I then created an instance of Smarty, assigned a template variable and tried to display the index.tpl file. I loaded the index.php file from my web browser and got the following error:

Warning: Smarty error: unable to read template resource: "index.tpl" in /usr/local/lib/php/Smarty/libs/Smarty.class.php on line 1042

I've checked the absolute paths, file ownership and permissions and I can't seem to find out what's wrong. The following is the code I'm using:

/home/web/seventicks/calendar/index.php looks like this:

require('Smarty.class.php');

$smarty = new Smarty;

$smarty->template_dir = '/home/web/seventicks/smarty/calendar/templates/';
$smarty->complir_dir = '/home/web/seventicks/smarty/calendar/templates_c/';
$smarty->config_dir = '/home/web/seventicks/smarty/calendar/configs/';
$smarty->cache_dir = '/home/web/seventicks/smarty/calendar/cache/';

$smarty->assign('name','Kelly');
$smarty->display('index.tpl');
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/home/web/seventicks/smarty/calendar/index.tpl:

{* Smarty *}

Hello, {$name}!
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I'm new to Smarty so perhaps I've overlooked something. Any suggestions as to why I'm getting this error would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
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messju · Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2003 6:54 pm Post subject:

put it in the "templates"-dir . smarty looks for it in /home/web/seventicks/smarty/calendar/templates/ as you told it to.

HTH

(and you have a typo in "$smarty->compile_dir = ...")

boots · Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2003 6:58 pm Post subject:

If you are getting that error, either you don't have the template stored in the $smarty->template_dir OR you are on a windows box (though it looks like you are *nix) which means you need to include the drive letter:

'C:/home/web/seventicks/smarty/calendar/templates/'

Smarty Pants · Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2003 8:04 pm Post subject:

Thanks for the quick reply!

I fixed the typo and
my index.tpl file is in /home/web/seventicks/smarty/calendar/templates/
and yes I am running Smarty on a Linux box.

I tried going down to a previous version, Smarty-2.4.2 to see if that would solve my problems, but no luck.

I'm still getting the same error.
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boots · Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2003 9:44 pm Post subject:

Messju is so good at picking out those hard to find errors!!

You wrote that:

Smarty Pants · Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2003 10:00 pm Post subject:

The php.ini file is pretty straight forward... nothing funky that I know about.

I changed the following code in index.php:

$smarty->display('index.tpl');'

to

$smarty->display('/home/web/seventicks/smarty/calendar/templates/index.tpl');

and now everything works.

Any idea why?
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Sri_Lumpa · Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2003 9:15 am Post subject:

You wrote $smarty->complir_dir
instead of $smarty->compile_dir Wink

Häakon · Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2003 11:50 am Post subject:

I'm a new Smarty user, and I did use the search function to try to find an answer to my problem (that's why I'm posting in this topic and not a new one), but unfortunately I'm having the exact same problem that "Smarty Pants" is having, except I didn't spell anything incorrectly. All of my paths are set correctly, and I'm using the identical examples used in the setup guide (it still says "$smarty->assign('name','Ned');", even), and i get the same error

Häakon · Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2003 12:06 pm Post subject:

As an aside, I further went ahead and included the literal path just to make sure it would work - and even that spits out errors. Doing that gives me this in return:

messju · Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2003 12:38 pm Post subject:

this

Häakon · Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2003 1:11 pm Post subject:

Where do you "configure" that? I have the path listed in my index.php as

$smarty->compile_dir = '/home/showchoir/smarty/schools/templates_c/';

is that what you mean?

messju · Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2003 3:17 pm Post subject:

yep, but without the trailing slash. only SMARTY_DIR needs a trailing-slash, but no other dir that smarty uses should have one.

Häakon · Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2003 9:01 pm Post subject:

Unfortunately, removing the trailing slashes didn't do anything. Sad

(Just to let you know, they include trailing slashes in the install documentation when they tell you how to set up your index.php, but I digress...)

Any other thoughts?

boots · Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2003 9:11 pm Post subject:

Häakon, has it occured to you to post your code sample as well as the versions of Smarty, PHP and OS you are using?

If you read the forums, you will notice that A LOT OF PEOPLE have this problem and in all but one case, it was because they misconfigured.

We WILL help you if you show us what you have done and what that results in.

Good Luck!

Häakon · Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2003 9:29 pm Post subject:

Sure, no problem at all. Here's my index.php code: