I'm installing the smarty templating system. I'm not familiar with classes and i'm stuck at something. The configuration file has a class with variables for you to assign directory paths to, the problem i have is that i need to assign a variable to one.

 

I'm getting the current template with an sql query. Then i'm doing this:

 

var $template_dir	=  "templates/$template";

 

I get the error: syntax error, unexpected '"'

 

I've read and read but i still don't understand classes

 

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Have you tried concating the string instead?

 

try...

var $template_dir = "templates/" . $template;

$template_dir should just be the directory of your templates, so in this case;

 

var $template_dir = 'templates/';

How is it supposed to know which template to use then?

 

Yes i have tried concating it.

In your PHP script you'll tell Smarty which template you want to use inside the template_dir directory, at the point at which you invoke it. First I'll assume you've instantiated a Smarty object (usually in a Smarty config file included in each page which uses the framework), and configured the variables in the object like this:

$smarty = new Smarty();
$smarty->template_dir = '/path/to/templates/';

Then, for example, invoke the "mytmpl.tpl" template file in a script like this:

$smarty->display('mytmpl.tpl');

Hope that helps!