Smarty

rustybucket · Smarty Regular Joined: 28 Jan 2009 Posts: 60

I'm just trying to get my feet wet with v3 right now. Fired up a test environment with 3 and brought in one of my v2 sites. I'm getting this error.

Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'Exception' with message 'Syntax Error in template "/Users/computer/Sites/name/public_html/templates/dnr/public/content/showAll.tpl" on line 33 " {$content.content|strip}" unknown modifier "strip"' in .....

I know exactly where I think this error is coming from.

in the template file: {$content.content|strip}

It used to strip all the whitespace out of the html ($content.content). Is strip still available in 3? Am I just using it wrong?

U.Tews · Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2010 5:19 pm Post subject:

It looks like that $smarty->plugins_dir does not point to the plugins folder.

rustybucket · Smarty Regular Joined: 28 Jan 2009 Posts: 60

I checked that and everything looks good with the path.

I am testing smarty this way, (maybe this is my problem?)

I have a directory /smarty/libs/

I can run a v2 site just fine with this setup (it is my local dev environment).

When I replace the /libs/ v2 folder with the /libs/ folder from v3 I begin getting the errors.

If the path was correctly set with the v2 /lib/ in place shouldn't it be the same with the v3?

mohrt · Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2010 6:03 pm Post subject:

Try:

$smarty->utility->testInstall();

See if all folders are setup correctly.

rustybucket · Smarty Regular Joined: 28 Jan 2009 Posts: 60

ok, yup definitely something going on here.

as per mohrt's instructions

Smarty Installation test...
Testing template directory...
FAILED: ./templates/ is not a directory.
Testing compile directory...

Catchable fatal error: Object of class Smarty could not be converted to string in /Users/rustycoan/Sites/name/smarty/libs/sysplugins/smarty_internal_utility.php on line 177

mohrt · Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2010 6:32 pm Post subject:

is the compile_dir a string? It cannot be an array. Also your template_dir seems to not be found. Use absolute filepaths to everything to be safe.

U.Tews · Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2010 6:34 pm Post subject:

There was recently a bug fix for smarty_internal_utility.php.
You must use the latest SVN version.

rustybucket · Smarty Regular Joined: 28 Jan 2009 Posts: 60

Yes, it's a string. All paths are absolute paths. Again, all of this setup info works just fine if I switch back to the v2 smarty libs.

Here's where I define the paths

mohrt · Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2010 6:42 pm Post subject:

and if you do:

rustybucket · Smarty Regular Joined: 28 Jan 2009 Posts: 60

mohrt · Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2010 6:44 pm Post subject:

U.Tews · Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2010 6:45 pm Post subject:

See the following in the SMARTY3_BC_NOTES

== Extending the Smarty class ==
Smarty 3 makes use of the __construct method for initialization. If you are extending
the Smarty class, its constructor is not called implicitly if the your child class defines
its own constructor. In order to run Smarty's constructor, a call to parent::__construct()
within your child constructor is required.

<source lang="php">
class MySmarty extends Smarty {
function __construct() {
parent::__construct();

// your initialization code goes here

}
}
</source>

rustybucket · Smarty Regular Joined: 28 Jan 2009 Posts: 60

Response to the var_dump(is_writable())

bool(true)

APP_DIR is a path that's defined earlier. I wanted/needed a more 'portable' way of implementing smarty and transferring between servers so all my possible variable paths are defined.

In this particular case APP_DIR = /Users/computer/Sites/name/public_html/

mohrt · Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2010 6:49 pm Post subject:

I think U.Tews found the issue.

rustybucket · Smarty Regular Joined: 28 Jan 2009 Posts: 60

so, something like this? I'm not sure I'm understanding fully...