Smarty

[Lantern]

I have read the readme file, the install file, the online manual, and I honestly have no idea what I am doing. I'm on windows, and all i'm trying to do is get it to work. I don't have PHP or Apache installed on my computer. In my FTP, I uploaded the

libs/Smarty/Smarty.class.php
libs/Smarty/Smarty_Compiler.class.php
libs/Smarty/Config_File.class.php
libs/Smarty/debug.tpl
libs/Smarty/core/*.php
libs/Smarty/plugins/*.php

to that file, so it would be www.mydomain.net/libs/Smarty/Smarty.class.php
then, I made a folder in libs/Smarty called stats, then create the template, template_c, etc. Did the index.tpl, did the index.php, and when I try to do index.php I get:

[brat_]

You don't need PHP or Apache installed on your local computer for Smarty to work, but I would recomend installing both so you can learn a little bit of both. Most web developers, including myself, have several computers with several different environments setup specifically for testing.

Now, as for your errors, its all in the path... The errors are basically saying "I can't find what you want..." Your host should be able to tell you what your home directory path is. If you want to learn a little more about PHP and such, my recomendation is to use the following code to find the directory path: