Smarty

[AustrianCoder]

Hi.

At the moment i am using a very basic template system - my own
But i want to switch to smarty, and this quite fast. I have a we site up and running via my template system. Now i got time to do the switch.
It is a windows system - i know linux rocks much more, but i am not allowed to change it - with an ISS and php 4.3.6. safe_mode is set to no and $use_sub_dirs is set to false.

Now i must install smarty in our wokring dir, so that the htdocs root looks like this:
* pictures
* ...
* scripts
* scripts/smarty/...

Now i started the demo and got this error:

[boots]

You said "scripts" but the error message refers to "scripte" -- a typo?

[chill_gun]

i had the same problem with my winXP+IIS

it is doesn't looks like a type error

[boots]

@chill_gun: are we supposed to divine what it looks like? Please post details if you are looking for help.

[chill_gun]

"boots" thanks for your reply!

I have learned Smarty for some days, but it doesn't really go further then i start. i have try a simple example come with Smarty and my system keep send the error massage below :

[sadcafe]

I'm encountering the exact same problem using the exact same test example from the installation docs. Anyone help?

I am using IIS 5.1 and PHP 4.3.8 on a Windows XP Pro machine.

sadcafe.
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[sadcafe]

I've just uploaded the exact same files (with paths changed only) to my webhosting (Linux), and "VOILA!" It suddenly works...

Definitely an environment issue, but can anyone put their finger on it? I'd really prefer to develop my site locally (strangely enough!).

Cheers,

sadcafe

P.S. No, installing Linux is not an option!
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[sadcafe]

Here's my app logic file c:\inetpub\wwwroot\gamers\index.php
[php:1:6ea025f153]<?php
// load Smarty library
require('c:/inetpub/wwwroot/smarty/Smarty.class.php');
$smarty = new Smarty;

$smarty->template_dir = 'c:/inetpub/wwwroot/gamers/templates/';
$smarty->compile_dir = 'c:/inetpub/wwwroot/gamers/templates_c/';
$smarty->config_dir = 'c:/inetpub/wwwroot/gamers/configs/';
$smarty->cache_dir = 'c:/inetpub/wwwroot/gamers/cache/';

$smarty->assign('name','Ned');

$smarty->display('index.tpl');
?>[/php:1:6ea025f153]

Here's the template it references, located at c:\inetpub\wwwroot\gamers\templates\index.tpl

[messju]

[sadcafe]

Hi messju,

You are certainly on to something with the tempnam() function. Many thanks for your reply. I did a small test. Here is my test file:
[php:1:b4f77fee3d]<?php

$trypath = "c:\\inetpub\\wwwroot\\gamers\\templates_c";
printf("Attempting to use directory %s</br>", $trypath);

$tmpfname = tempnam($trypath, "FOO");
printf("Attempting to create file %s</br>", $tmpfname);

$handle = fopen($tmpfname, "w");
fwrite($handle, "writing to tempfile");
fclose($handle);
printf("File created was %s</br>", $tmpfname);

//unlink($tmpfname);
?>[/php:1:b4f77fee3d]

And here's the output:

[messju]

http://php.net/tempnam says:

"On Windows the TMP environment variable will override the dir parameter, on Linux the TMPDIR environment variable has precedence, while SVR4 will always use your dir parameter if the directory it points to exists. "

so unsetting TMP may help here.

but if your testscript successfully writes to the tempfile, then the problem is elsewhere.

[sadcafe]

OK, I finally got it working!!!

The failure of tempnam() writing to the intended directory was indeed due to a permissions issue.

IIS runs as the IUSER_[machine name] local user so that user must have access to the "template_c" and "cache" folders. Once I allowed that user full permissions to those folders, everything worked! I feel such a dumbass now!

Many thanks for your help messju. You have helped more than you realise!

Marty (sadcafe)
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[sadr1an1]

You are right AustrianCoder a had the same problem. I think it is a good thing to put it into the manual.