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[Steevi93]

Howdy:

First post, so please be gentle. I'm currently a level 5 student and I'm looking for help with a PHP website that I'm designing.

It was recommended that I use Smarty templates, so I have installed everything, and played around with it somewhat using documentation that I was provided, to basically get used to the template way of doing things.

I have a database where I need to display images and character names from Star Wars (I'm basically trying to create a "Guess Who" game).

However, I cannot see to find any documentation on how I can go about this. The database is done, I have the relevant select SQL command, and I have connected to my database in PHP successfully.

I come from a technical support background and am a complete novice when it comes to software development. I'm normally fixing things, not creating them, lol. I don't want code written for me... just some tips on where I could find guidance.

Thanks in Advance!

[bsmither]

This documentation page sets up a resource that communicates with a database and provides samples of how to get templates from that resource:
https://www.smarty.net/docs/en/resources.custom.tpl

But this explains how to retrieve templates from this resource, not retrieve data to populate a template.

To retrieve data from the database and populate the template with it, then the assign() method is used.

[Steevi93]