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Steps

1. Download a version of SmartyView from here:
http://cakeforge.org/snippet/detail.php?type=snippet&id=6

1. Save SmartyView as /(app)/views/smarty.php

2. Download Smarty

http://smarty.php.net/download.php
Extract tarball so Smarty.class.php sits at /vendor/smarty/Smarty.class.php

3. Create "smarty/compile" and "smarty/cache" within your tmp dir

(/(app)/tmp/ by default) and make them writable by the apache user

4. Include in your controller

(in app_controller.php to do it app-wide) Download code var $view = 'Smarty'; and (to enable the SmartyHtml/SmartyJavascript helpers) Download code var $helpers = array('SmartyHtml','SmartyJavascript'); to use Smarty templates and helpers.

You now have SmartyView installed!

Notes:

1. /views/smarty_templates is parsed for smarty plugins : http://smarty.incutio.com/?page=SmartyPlugins
2. SmartyView will fall back to .thtml templates for views.
3. By default Smarty views must reside in 'smarty' subdirectories -- see addendum for information regarding removing this requirement.

Examples:

Without Smarty Helpers all helpers are available through:
Download code {$helper->method()}
ex:
Download code {$html->input('User/username')}
Smarty doesn't allow for 'array(' in the templates so to use calls requiring them you have to use a plugin to assign arrays as well (such as http://cakeforge.org/snippet/detail.php?type=snippet&id=13 or http://smarty.incutio.com/?page=AdvancedAssignPlugin).
This ends up looking like this (using array_assoc from cakeforge):
Download code {assign_assoc var='ArrayName' value='size=>40,class=>classname'}
<p>Title: {$html->input('Post/title', $ArrayName)}</p>


Alternatively, you can use the Smarty Helpers
http://bakery.cakephp.org/articles/view/138. The Smarty Helpers are Smarty wrappers for existing helpers so you can call helper methods 'natively' in smarty. Note that many helper methods have not been wrapped yet - the current code serves as an example.

With Smarty Helpers all helpers are available in native Smarty style:
Download code     {html func=css path="cake.generic"}
    {javascript func=link url="lib/prototype"}
Download code     {html func=url url="/admin/logout"}
    {html func=input fieldName=User/username class="test" size=30 }
For html func=input above, fieldName is required while all other parameters are passed as $htmlAttributes.


Enjoy!

Addendum:

note:

This line within the constructor ( __construct ) :

$this->subDir = 'smarty'.DS; requires view templates to be within a subdirectory (i.e. /app/views/posts/smarty/index.tpl)

Commenting this line removes this requirement.

This will not cause problems unless you are using another inherited view class that uses '.tpl' as its extension.