Smarty

[Imperfect]

I installed Smarty, and walked through the setup instructions up to page 5, and got stuck. I got php to recognize smarty, and can instantiate an instance of the smarty object, but the moment I try and run any templates, I get the following errors:

[messju]

- try to set $smarty->compile_dir to an absolute path, to be sure smarty uses the one you chmod'ed.
- maybe chmod 770 is not enough to let the webserver write into templates_c. do chgrp ("nogroup" or "apache" or "wwwdata" or whatever your webserver runs) or try chmod 777 if you are not allowed to chgrp.
- if you run php's safe_modeset $smarty->use_sub_dirs to false.

HTH
messju

[Enquest]

The thing is this error can jump up without any reason. When I'm happaly coding and make a mistake with pointing a file to for example the wrong file

$smarty->assign('tbody', 'pl_view.tpl');
$smarty->display('index.tpl');

Then somehow Smarty doesn't want to write any longer to the template_c dir
I need to change the chmod again before it starts working again!

Is it a bug... Or is this normal?
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[l3ean]

There are 3 numbers for chmodding of course - User, group, world (anonymous)

The user is YOU, the site owner - NOT PEOPLE LOGGED INTO YOUR SITE SCRIPT

777 means the user, the user's group, and anonymous people can read, write, and execute.

770 means only the user and the user's group can read, write and execute, but the anonymous people that use the site in their browser can't do anything.

Don't be scared if you give anonymous people the power to write. They can only do it by their browser and if you have some script that enables them to write.....such as when smarty writes the templates, they have to have read and write access but don't need execute access so I would chmodd these things 774.

Anyway, one of my clients is having the same problem with smarty and am about to try setting this absolute path.