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JonathanATX
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 09, 2003 3:50 pm    Post subject: Probably a stupid question Reply with quote

I am working on my schools website and I'm using smarty to do it. They want the site to be easy to change and all that..and I think I need to call the templates from a db to make it all easier. I saw the documentation on this but, I don't understand this stuff:

// using resource from php script
$smarty->display("db:index.tpl");

{* using resource from within Smarty template *}
{include file="db:/extras/navigation.tpl"}

can anyone explain what the table will look like and what the stuff after the : means? Thank you.

-Jonathan
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messju
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 09, 2003 4:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

"db" is the resource-type in the example. you can have multiple resource-types (with different type-names) in your templates. the stuff after "db:" is the resource-name. the name is passed as a parameter to your resource-handling functions. in the docs' example it's just a 3 column table with tpl_name (a string), tpl_timestamp (an int) and tpl_source (text) where the templates are stored.

i'm not sure if using resources makes it it easier. if you want the people allow to change the sites contents, but not the layout, you don't have to let them edit the templates you just have to let them edit the data that is displayed inside the templates. maybe you don't need resources in your case.
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JonathanATX
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 10, 2003 3:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

If I had it my way, it would be like that. But the teacher is kind of stressing that every page be almost like having a bunch of flat html for the webmastering classes. But thank you for explaining that to me.

-Jonathan
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