*smarty*

[ronniebthatsme]

Hi,

I installed smarty yesterday on my localhost Apache, everything worked fine so I decided to upload it to my online server. This is when the problems started.

http://www.digitalronan.co.uk/fdbetting/

This is the out put.

(Fatal error: Failed opening required '/usr/local/psa/home/vhosts/digitalronan.co.uk/httpdocs/fdbetting/Smarty.class.php' (include_path='.:/usr/local/psa/apache/lib/php') in /usr/local/psa/home/vhosts/digitalronan.co.uk/httpdocs/fdbetting/index.php on line 3)

The Smarty.class.php and the index.php file re in the same dir and I have tryed using

require('/usr/local/psa/home/vhosts/digitalronan.co.uk/httpdocs/fdbetting/Smarty.class.php');

and

define('SMARTY_DIR', '/usr/local/psa/home/vhosts/digitalronan.co.uk/httpdocs/fdbetting/');
require(SMARTY_DIR.'Smarty.class.php');

and

require('Smarty.class.php');

With out success. By the way my server is running in safe mode.

Could someone please help me with this?

RonnieB.

[m.t.]

the smarty directory needs to be within your include path

http://www.php.net/manual/en/configu...directives.php
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.ini-set.php

regards,
M.T.

[Hierophant]

While it makes it much easier to include the Smarty Directory in your include path, you can't always do this if you are on a shared server. To get around this, Smarty allows you to specify the directories where its files are located.

When I create a Smarty based project, I always include the following lines in my configuration script:

define (SMARTY_DIR, WEBPATH . '/includes/smarty/');
require(SMARTY_DIR.'Smarty.class.php');
$smarty->compile_check = true;
$smarty->debugging = false;
$smarty = new Smarty;
$smarty->template_dir = WEBPATH . '/includes/smarty/cms/templates/';
$smarty->compile_dir = WEBPATH . '/includes/smarty/cms/templates_c/';
$smarty->config_dir = WEBPATH . '/includes/smarty/cms/configs/';
$smarty->cache_dir = WEBPATH . '/includes/smarty/cms/cache/'; 

This gives me more control over the entire layout of my project and where Smarty needs to work at.

You can also override Smarty's settings by using a class to extend it and set your variables within the constructor like the following:

class pageDisplay extends Smarty {
  function pageDisplay() {
    $this->Smarty();
    $this->template_dir = WEBPATH . '/includes/templates/templates/';
    $this->compile_dir = WEBPATH . '/includes/templates/templates_c/';
    $this->config_dir = WEBPATH . '/includes/templates/configs/';
    $this->cache_dir = WEBPATH . '/includes/templates/cache/';
    $this->caching = false;
    $this->compile_check = false;
    $this->debugging = false;
    $this->assign('app_name','Metaquark CMS');    
  }
} 

All of this is discussed in the Smarty manual that comes with the actual download. I haven't messed with the version included with PEAR at all though because of all the bad things I have heard about PEAR overall.

[ronniebthatsme]

the smarty directory needs to be within your include path

http://www.php.net/manual/en/configu...directives.php
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.ini-set.php

regards,
M.T.

I have no tryed

ini_set("include_path","/usr/local/psa/home/vhosts/digitalronan.co.uk/httpdocs/fdbetting/");
define('SMARTY_DIR','/usr/local/psa/home/vhosts/digitalronan.co.uk/httpdocs/fdbetting/');
require(SMARTY_DIR.'Smarty.class.php');

and

ini_set("include_path","/usr/local/psa/home/vhosts/digitalronan.co.uk/httpdocs/fdbetting/");
require('Smarty.class.php');

with out success. Please help me as this is *very* frustrating.

RonnieB.

[mniskanen]

If you have the application script in the same directory you can try:

include('./Smarty.class.php');

That's what I am doing in my environment. Also check the ownership(s) and rwx modes of the directories and remember to change the safe_mode setting

var use_sub_dirs = false;

in the Smarty.class.php

Markku