Comments on: Building Browsergames: Getting started with a templating system (PHP)

By: D0nkey

D0nkey — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 03:38:18 +0000

Luke,

I hardly have any HTML knowledge and your guide so far was a real gem and it got me super motivated every step of the way. I made some minor mistakes, managed to find and fix um, and with hardly any HTML knowledge I mean 12 hours of HTML learning .

Unfortunately this is where I'll have to drop this very nice course. Not everybody has a local server, which according to my acquaintances is necessary to run something like Smarty.

Thank you for teaching many people the basics and it's really too bad that I can't do much else now here.

Best of luck with your great site!

By: Alexander Predl

Alexander Predl — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 05:32:43 +0000

this is the right question ^^ but let me explain, you can use php right without template system (whatever smarty or savant), but your code will always mixed html and php… but what about separate code and html, better readability, faster output (caching)? then you need to use a template, my favorite is of course savant3. it is a class, every output has to be added first from the main php and the final display-output the ready prepared website (like echo).

By: Patrick

Patrick — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 03:21:40 +0000

why exactaly do I need to use smarty at all? I can follow all the php and mysql but when you started using smarty I got totally lost. any help will be very appreciated.

By: Luke

Luke — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:31:06 +0000

Savant3 is a pretty nice templating engine – but no matter what engine you
choose, there will always be someone saying “why didn't you use templating
system X? Or Y?”(and in the extreme cases, “why did you use a templating
system?”).

Smarty was the templating system recommended to me by a few other developers
- so it was the one I went with.

By: Alexander Predl

Alexander Predl — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:51:14 +0000

Why not using Savant3?? I'm using this template system since 2 years and works perfectly for me. Savant3 uses php for templates. So you don't need to learn another template language. It is faster than smarty and most of all smarty has a memory leak and is instable….

By: Luke

Luke — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:31:06 +0000

Smarty was the templating system recommended to me by a few other developers
- so it was the one I went with.

By: Alexander Predl

Alexander Predl — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:51:14 +0000

By: Luke

Luke — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:17:51 +0000

@keilaniswk: The e-mail issue should be fixed now – not really sure what
went wrong there.

Sorry about that!

By: keilaniswk

keilaniswk — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:24:17 +0000

Here is what to do if you have problems setting Smarty up:

1) You should put the Smarty files in the same folder you have your site. (Just all the directories and files inside the “libs” folder that you get when you unzip).

2) Create the following folders at the same location: “configs”, “templates”, “templates_c and “cache”.

3) Read this page to find the absolute path of your files/folders on your server (you will need this info to edit your “index.php” file): http://bogdan.org.ua/2007/04/30/how-to-find-abs...

4) Use your absolute path to edit your “index.php” file.

That is all

@Luke: Your host has disabled send mail, I can't get registration mail

By: Luke

Luke — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 14:14:17 +0000

Did you try following the Smarty Quick Install guide at
http://smarty.net/quick_start.php? There is also a link to the windows
instructions at the top, if you're not using *nix.