Post on 29-Nov-2014
description
Smarty Template
Introduction
Musavir Iftekhar
Installation
• Download form site.. www.smarty.net/
• Unzip and put smarty directory under your home directory
Using• Better to create your own folders of templates else using default.
<?phpdefine('SMARTY_DIR', 'smarty/' );require_once(SMARTY_DIR . 'Smarty.class.php');
$smarty = new Smarty();$smarty->template_dir = './templates/';$smarty->compile_dir = './templates/compile/';$smarty->cache_dir = './templates/cache/';$smarty->caching = false;?>
Common syntax
$val = “some value”;
$smarty->assign(“smarty_sending_var”, $val);$smarty->display(“page.tpl”);//page in template folder
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Page.tpl
{* these are comments of smarty *}{$smarty_sending_var} // will show contents of sending values from the page
Variable Modifiers
{$var|modifier}{$title|capitalize} output: MYTITLE{$title|count_words} output: 55{$dt, “%B %e, %Y”} output: December 22, 2005
{$title|default:”some val”} output: if $title = null then some val
{$title|strip_tags} output: remove html tags from string
{$title|truncate:20} output: show reduce to 20 characters
Control Structures
{if $var qualifier comprator}
Output
{elseif $var qualifier comprator}
Output
{else}
Output
{/if}
$my_array = array(‘val1’, ‘val2’, ‘val3’);$smarty->assign(“array_val”, $my_array);
Handle in into template as{foreach from=$my_array item=valout}{$valout}{/foreach}If no value in array.. then{foreach from=$my_array item=valout}{$valout}{foreachesles}Output here{/foreach}
Section
$titles = arrray(‘a’, ‘b’, ‘c’);
$smarty->assign(“titles”, $titles);
$smarty->display(“titles.tpl”);
--------------------titles.tpl--------------------
{section name=book loop=$titles}
{$titles[book]}
{/section}
Output:abc
$titles = arrray(‘title’=>’Eng’, ‘author’=>’Master’, ‘pub’=>’apex’);
$smarty->assign(“titles”, $titles);$smarty->display(“titles.tpl”);--------------------titles.tpl--------------------{section name=book loop=$titles}{$titles[book].title}{$titles[book].author}{$titles[book].pub}{/section}Output:Eng Master apex
sectionelse
$titles = arrray(‘a’, ‘b’, ‘c’);
$smarty->assign(“titles”, $titles);
$smarty->display(“titles.tpl”);
--------------------titles.tpl--------------------
{section name=book loop=$titles}
{$titles[book]}
{sectionelse}
Output: if array = null
{/section}
Output:abc
Include
{include file=“/usr/local/lib/pmnp/header.tpl”}
{* Execute some other Smarty statements here. *}
{include file=“/usr/local/temps/footer.tpl”}
{include file=“/local/header.tpl” title=“My home page”}
Insert
• Insert some advertisement page
function insert_banner(){
}------------------tpl file-----------------------------
<img src=“imgs/{insert name=“banner”}.gif”/>
CSS with literal tag
Insert css into tpl file directly<html><head>{literal}<style type=“text/css”>P{Margin: 5px;}</style>{/literal}</head>User Link to connect with outer css file <link style=“text/css” href=“mycss.css” />
Caches
$smarty->caching = 1