Smarty

[peroSine]

Thought I would share how I work with smarty. Before outputting the entire page with display() I first define the contents of the site in an array with the following:

[php:1:76661e22b8]<?
// Smarty (smarty.php.net)
require_once('library/smarty/Smarty.class.php');
$template = new Smarty();

// Configuration
require_once('include/config.inc.php');

// Initiate template arrays
$aCSS = array();
$aContent = array();
$aSidebar = array();

// Page navigation
// check if page is requested
if(isset($_REQUEST['page']) && !(trim($_REQUEST['page'] == ""))) $sPage = $_REQUEST['page'];
else $sPage = "";

switch($sPage)
{
// HOMEPAGE
default;
// do whatever you want here to fill up the Content array with fetch.
$aContent[] = template->fetch('introduction.tpl')
// required stylesheet for introduciont.tpl
$aCSS[] = 'introduction';
$aContent[] = template->fetch('newsLatest.tpl');
break;

// NEWS
case 'news';
// same here
break;

// Output the used CSS + Sidebar + Content
$template->assign('aCSS', $aCSS);
$template->assign('aContent', $aContent);
$template->assign('aSidebar', $aSidebar);

// Print the template
$template->display("index.tpl");
?>[/php:1:76661e22b8]

Normally I work with different classes/functions in the above 'cases' which fill up the content and sidebar arrays for me with the correct templates.

Than in the index.tpl I have the following:

[TGKnIght]

Hello... I am doing something similar, except that I do not actually fetch the templates... Instead I have 3 arrays - left, middle & right, which hold the names/paths of the templates that will be used to generate the final page...

Then I call my "master" template which is again almost exactly the same as your... instead of output the variable {$content} mine is more like