Smarty

[zmodem]

Seriously, I've done a search for this error message and it seems to come up a lot. There has got to be a better way to do whatever it is Smarty needs to. I've never ran accross a script that asked me to set an include path in the php ini file. :/

Anyway...

I can require the smarty.class.php file just fine, but it can't ever find the templates directory unless I set both $template_dir and $compile_dir explicitly.

I figure this is just a rough workaround, I'm hoping I'm just not doing something right. Please excuse my placing templates in the web root. I'm just trying to get this damn thing working.

Files are located:

root = /webprojects/
smarty = /webprojects/hobbycode/smarty/
script = /webprojects/hobbycode/projects/

I have templates, templates_c, cache and configs under the smarty dir.

from my script in the script path above, I can simply:
[php:1:bccbc475c8]
require ('/webprojects/hobbycode/smarty/smarty.class.php");
[/php:1:bccbc475c8]

which gives no errors, but refuses to load any template.

How does smarty know where the templates dir is? How does it figure this out on it's own? Is setting the template_dir property the only solution?

apache 2/php 4.3.9/ win xp

Any help is appricated.

Thanks

[striker70]

I'm having a similar problem.

It appears that smarty only works when it's in the root directory

I cant call smarty from another dirctory.

smarty location = /libs/smarty class
script calling smarty = /mydirectory/file name

if I do this to include it require '/libs/smarty.class.php';

IT pukes!
if I do this require '../libs/smarty.class.php';

IT pukes with error unable to find templates_c
I think that because it wants to look for templates_c in the directory I'm calling it from.

is there any way to set Scripts $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] / path name?

I have a feeling it's part of server configuration problem