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

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.

By: Chris Black

Chris Black — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 12:00:18 +0000

well… too bad the tutorial ends here for me…
the “smarty” installation is not too easy to configure… at least for a human just learning PHP like me. I was sucessful in the previous steps of all this… never a fail! so, I feel happines! but.. with this…
There is some way to do this part without the use of that? I mean… If I need some kind of skin for the game… man! long life to CSS!! I have in mind other look for my game (if I can learn some of this…) I mean… it is really necesary the use of “Smarty” for all this? The tutorial here is the best I found around the Net to learn all this stuff. It's perfect even for a noob like me. I just fail for the inclussion of this stuff here…
if someone can help me to translate the codes without the use of the so called “Smarty” it could be great help… I know you guys are busy people but… I'm so noob… T_T

By: MrLollige

MrLollige — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 08:33:17 +0000

Yup, I indeed figured that.
However, at the moment I am still working without smarty, just because I want to fully understand exactly what is happening. Maybe I will implement smarty later on, but for now I do not really feel the need for it.
Thanks again for your great tutorial!

By: Luke

Luke — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 19:46:43 +0000

I'm not quite sure where the problem with keeping smarty in your local
directory is – as all you need to use Smarty is FTP access(not even
database).
As far as I'm aware, CakePHP is a lot more work to install than Smarty, as
it's a framework instead of just a templating engine – so I don't think that
CakePHP is the solution to your problems either.