Smarty

[hughprior]

I have a problem getting the relative paths working on my actual website (www.localpin.com), though everything works fine when I run things locally (localhost).

Compare the following 2 identical files in different directories:
http://www.localpin.com/testdb.php (it finds the template - ignore the other errors!)
http://www.localpin.com/main/maintestdb.php (it doesn't find the template)

I have put my templates in a directory off the root, i.e. in a directory /smartyplates/.

Rather than put the template information in the Smarty class, or define it each time I want to use a template, I have created a class SmartyPin in which I set the Smarty "templates" variable, and I always declare an object of type SmartyPin.

Now, what should the assignment of the template variable look like?

Amongst others, I have tried:
$template = "/smartyplates"
$template = "smartyplates"

Thanks for any help.

[boots]

I suggest you calculate your absolute base path during your initialization and then prepend that to your smarty directory assignments. For example, if you are using a prepend script that exists in your root dir and contains something like the following:

[php:1:d209fc9526]<?php
list($root_drive, $root_path) = explode(':', __FILE__);
if ($root_path) {
$root_drive .= ':';
$root_path = dirname($root_path);
} else {
$root_path = dirname($root_drive);
$root_drive = '';
}
define ('MY_ROOT_DRIVE', $root_drive);
define ('ROOT_DIR', MY_ROOT_DRIVE.$root_path.DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR);
?>[/php:1:d209fc9526]

Then you can use an absolute path which is what I would recommend. EG:

$template = ROOT_DIR."smartyplates"

Just a note: I haven't tested that code too heavily but it is supposed to work on both *nix and win. It is working for me, but YMMV

There are alternates to this strategy in this thread: http://www.phpinsider.com/smarty-forum/viewtopic.php?t=1268

HTH

[hughprior]

Yes, that did a great job. Not sure I understood how that code snippet works and the zillion things I tried didn't, but one day when it breaks I guess I'll have to...

Anyway, thanks for the quick response.