smarty and the mvc architecture from advanced php training

[Guest ziemowit]

Hi,

 

I wasn't sure where to post it, but I hope here's ok. I've followed killersites advanced php tutorials and ended up with a nice foundation for an mvc app. I thought I understood everything covered in that course, but I was wrong . I wanted to add Smarty to my app, but can't instantiate a smarty object, because I fail to include the smarty class properly. As instructed on smarty website you would do this by 'require' before creating the object. However since my app has that neat set_include_path mechanism I thought I could just add smarty to it.

The way it supposed to work was - add smarty class to included paths, instantiate smarty object in the render function of controllerabstract class, and pass some parameters from child controllers action methods. The problem is, when I create the object by <<$smarty = new Smarty(); >> I get an warning message saying that the Smarty class was not found. I must do something wrong because it also says that it looked for it in the controllers folder, or perhaps in that namespace and not in sites root folder.

 

I hope someone who's familiar with the tutorial could help me. Maybe I should instantiate that object differently. Any hints are welcomed.

[grabenair]

If that is the exact code try no spaces and $newSmarty Just for you know I am not the efficient in php but I would try that first.