Smarty integration into the CodeIgniter framework

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A Little Background Information:
I\'ve been looking at a few PHP framework recently, and it came down to two. The Zend Framework or CodeIgniter.

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Answer 1

Integrating Smarty in CodeIgniter? It is a breeze! The template system in CodeIgniter is very basic.

Follow these steps for Smarty 3 in CI 3:

Download CodeIgniter 3

Download Smarty 3 and put its content in 'application/third_party/smarty' folder

Create 'Custom_smarty.php' file in 'application/libraries' and add this code:

setTemplateDir(APPPATH.'views/templates/');   
    $this->setCompileDir(APPPATH.'views/templates_c/');
  }
}
?>

Create 'templates' & 'templates_c' folders inside 'application/views' folder

Create simple 'test.tpl' file in 'application/views/templates' folder

Open 'autoload.php' in 'application/config' folder and add:

$autoload['libraries'] = array('custom_smarty');

And inside a controller: $this->custom_smarty->display('test.tpl');

If you are working on localhost set the permissions: sudo chmod -R 777 templates_c. Otherwhise contact your hosting service, if you catch the error Unable to write file. First be sure templates_c folder exists.

Otherwise you can use another template engine like Twig.