Smarty

[dondi]

I'm having difficulty getting Smarty to do it's thing. I've gone through the documentation and searched the smarty forum and could not solve this.

I have Smarty libs installed at '/home/dondi/lib/php/Smarty'.

I have template_dir, compile_dir, config_dir, and cache_dir placed at '/home/dondi/smarty/hello'. These dirs are insecurely chmod'd 777.

In my doc root, I have index.php:
[php:1:d921ab7adc]
<?php
define('SMARTY_DIR','/home/dondi/lib/php/Smarty/');
require(SMARTY_DIR.'Smarty.class.php');

$smarty = new Smarty;

$smarty->template_dir = '/home/dondi/smarty/hello/templates';
$smarty->compile_dir = '/home/dondi/smarty/hello/templates_c';
$smarty->config_dir = '/home/dondi/smarty/hello/configs';
$smarty->cache_dir = '/home/dondi/smarty/hello/cache';

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

$smarty->display('index.tpl');
?>
[/php:1:d921ab7adc]

My '/home/dondi/smarty/hello/templates/index.tpl' looks like:

[dondi]

As it turns out '/home/dondi' is a symbolic link to '/home/members/dondi'. Once I corrected the previously mention paths to be more absolute. Everything works now. I guess Smarty does not follow (shortcuts|aliases|symbolic links).