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edemocracyub
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Joined: 27 Feb 2004
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 27, 2004 6:40 pm    Post subject: trying to learn to use Smarty. Reply with quote

Hi ,

I'm trying to learn to use smarty...I have read all the documentation and few tutorials but I still don't get it.

btw. it would be really helpful if someone knows a web site where the use of smarty codes can be studied.

any help will be very helpful.
Thanks.
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Duncan
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Joined: 16 Dec 2003
Posts: 166

PostPosted: Fri Feb 27, 2004 7:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The examples provided in the Smarty distribution already give a nice overview of some its abilities as well as the Smarty CrashCourse: http://smarty.php.net/crashcourse.php

Otherwise I would recommend the following two tutorials, which provide a detailed walkthrough to create some sample pages:

http://www.zend.com/zend/tut/tutorial-cezar.php

http://www.zend.com/zend/tut/tutorial-stump.php
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MindPhlash
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Joined: 14 May 2008
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PostPosted: Thu May 15, 2008 5:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I bought the one book that I could find on it - Smarty - PHP Template programming and Applications, but it's still not the world's greatest reference.

I find myself doing a lot of {php} {/php} as hacks around just to make things work, but I know there's ways to do things in smarty because I see the tags for them, the tags just arn't explained / documented all that well


another thing I'd reccomend would be the smarty cheat sheet http://hasin.wordpress.com/2006/06/10/smarty-cheat-sheet-version-20/

(it's from one of the guys that wrote the smarty book), and I keep it at my desk with my favorite CSS cheat sheet
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shannera
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Location: Edertal, Germany

PostPosted: Fri May 16, 2008 12:07 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

If you have to use {php} tags, you are surely making something wrong. I'm using Smarty for a few years, and hadn't used any php tags, because anything that can be placed in PHP tags can also be placed in the calling script.

Also I don't understand that you find the documentation isn't good enough. What tags are you referring to?
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MindPhlash
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PostPosted: Fri May 16, 2008 12:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

On of the tags I've been finding lacking on documentation is the $smarty.session reserved variable

I'm using sessions in my current site, however I've tried a few times to use the reserve $smarty tag but I could never seem to get the exact way on how it worked even after reading http://www.smarty.net/manual/en/language.variables.smarty.php

so instead I've been using a piece of code such as :

Code:
{php}
session_start();
//echo $_SESSION["logged_in"];
if(!session_is_registered(myusername)){
header("location:index.php");
}
{/php}
{include file='header.tpl'}


if you could give me a pointer on how to make this more efficient then I'm more then willing to listen and learn. Very Happy

After all I'm about to add more things to my sessions then just checking to see if the username is registered
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Celeb
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PostPosted: Fri May 16, 2008 1:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

$smarty.session is nothing but a "name" for the $_SESSION superglobal array.
You can do stuff like
Code:
{if isset($smarty.session.username)}
  Hello {$smarty.session.username|capitalize}!
{/if}


Maybe we could help you further, if you'd post a piece of code that doesn't work correctly for you.
Btw, I'd do all the session handling, authentication, etc in PHP rather than in the template and only set some flags to let Smarty know which parts of the website you want to be displayed.
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MindPhlash
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PostPosted: Fri May 16, 2008 1:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I just tried the {if} statement that you gave me for the smarty sessions, but nothing showed up

here's where I declared my session variables upon login:

Code:

session_register("myusername");
session_register("mypassword");
$_SESSION['views'] = $_SESSION['views'] + 1; // store session data


then here's where I took the code you gave me and thought I changed the variable right to display the username???

Code:
{if isset($smarty.session.myusername)}
  Hello {$smarty.session.myusername|capitalize}!
{/if}


(now this page still does have my origional {PHP} session codeblock at the top to check and make sure that the user is logged in) - not sure if that is effecting anything
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Celeb
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PostPosted: Fri May 16, 2008 1:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The use of session_register() is deprecated.

Why don't you do it like this:
Code:
session_start();
$_SESSION['myusername'] = 'bob';
$_SESSION['mypassword'] = 'hidden';
$_SESSION['views']++;


You can also print_r($_SESSION) to see which variables are set at all.
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LynnGillam
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Joined: 21 Dec 2015
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 01, 2016 12:51 pm    Post subject: Tutorial Website Reply with quote

I have searched the web for the coding tutorial, the website come front which i thought that may helping you is : http://www.tutorialspoint.com/computer_programming/. I hope it may be helpful to you.
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