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Re: Building Browsergames: Getting started with a templating system (PHP)

sarah brice — Sat, 24 Mar 2018 07:04:02 -0000

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Re: Building Browsergames: Getting started with a templating system (PHP)

Daniel — Fri, 27 Feb 2015 01:05:19 -0000

Hey, I wonder if you are still active on here but I'd be needing your assistance greatly. I've been following your tutorials so far and I like them but I have a problem installing Smarty on my system. I use Windows 8 with WAMP as my server.

Re: Building Browsergames: Getting started with a templating system (PHP)

disqus_pGbNa6YIN6 — Wed, 22 Oct 2014 18:11:59 -0000

Please, explain more simple. I don't understand what ou mean ......

Re: Building Browsergames: Getting started with a templating system (PHP)

Scar — Sat, 14 Jun 2014 17:04:02 -0000

I have upload files in root and do all steps as mentioned by keilaniswk. Changed path in php code to match mine and I get this error:
Uncaught --> Smarty: unable to write file /web/www.domain.com/smarty/templ... <-- thrown in/home/vhosts/mojaproba.orgfree.com/Smart... on line 44
Any help pls?

Re: Building Browsergames: Getting started with a templating system (PHP)

Dewan Payroda — Sat, 10 Aug 2013 14:38:07 -0000

I dont get this either, Smarty is just hard to get working
Why not put the code on github for us to learn how its done ?

Re: Building Browsergames: Getting started with a templating system (PHP)

D0nkey — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 18:38:18 -0000

Luke,

I hardly have any HTML knowledge and your guide so far was a real gem and it got me super motivated every step of the way. I made some minor mistakes, managed to find and fix um, and with hardly any HTML knowledge I mean 12 hours of HTML learning :).

Unfortunately this is where I'll have to drop this very nice course. Not everybody has a local server, which according to my acquaintances is necessary to run something like Smarty.

Thank you for teaching many people the basics and it's really too bad that I can't do much else now here.

Best of luck with your great site!

Re: Building Browsergames: Getting started with a templating system (PHP)

Alexander Predl — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 20:32:43 -0000

this is the right question ^^ but let me explain, you can use php right without template system (whatever smarty or savant), but your code will always mixed html and php... but what about separate code and html, better readability, faster output (caching)? then you need to use a template, my favorite is of course savant3. it is a class, every output has to be added first from the main php and the final display-output the ready prepared website (like echo).

Re: Building Browsergames: Getting started with a templating system (PHP)

Patrick — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:21:40 -0000

why exactaly do I need to use smarty at all? I can follow all the php and mysql but when you started using smarty I got totally lost. any help will be very appreciated.

Re: Building Browsergames: Getting started with a templating system (PHP)

Luke — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:31:06 -0000

Savant3 is a pretty nice templating engine - but no matter what engine you
choose, there will always be someone saying "why didn't you use templating
system X? Or Y?"(and in the extreme cases, "why did you use a templating
system?").

Smarty was the templating system recommended to me by a few other developers
- so it was the one I went with.

Re: Building Browsergames: Getting started with a templating system (PHP)

Alexander Predl — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:51:14 -0000

Why not using Savant3?? I'm using this template system since 2 years and works perfectly for me. Savant3 uses php for templates. So you don't need to learn another template language. It is faster than smarty and most of all smarty has a memory leak and is instable....

Re: Building Browsergames: Getting started with a templating system (PHP)

Luke — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:17:51 -0000

@keilaniswk: The e-mail issue should be fixed now - not really sure what
went wrong there.

Sorry about that!

Re: Building Browsergames: Getting started with a templating system (PHP)

S Keilani — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:24:17 -0000

Here is what to do if you have problems setting Smarty up:

1) You should put the Smarty files in the same folder you have your site. (Just all the directories and files inside the "libs" folder that you get when you unzip).

2) Create the following folders at the same location: "configs", "templates", "templates_c and "cache".

3) Read this page to find the absolute path of your files/folders on your server (you will need this info to edit your "index.php" file): http://bogdan.org.ua/2007/0...

4) Use your absolute path to edit your "index.php" file.

That is all :)

@Luke: Your host has disabled send mail, I can't get registration mail :(

Re: Building Browsergames: Getting started with a templating system (PHP)

Luke — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 10:14:17 -0000

Did you try following the Smarty Quick Install guide at
http://smarty.net/quick_sta... There is also a link to the windows
instructions at the top, if you're not using *nix.

Re: Building Browsergames: Getting started with a templating system (PHP)

Chris Black — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 08:00:18 -0000

well... too bad the tutorial ends here for me... :(
the "smarty" installation is not too easy to configure... at least for a human just learning PHP like me. I was sucessful in the previous steps of all this... never a fail! so, I feel happines! :P but.. with this...
There is some way to do this part without the use of that? I mean... If I need some kind of skin for the game... man! long life to CSS!! I have in mind other look for my game (if I can learn some of this...) I mean... it is really necesary the use of "Smarty" for all this? The tutorial here is the best I found around the Net to learn all this stuff. It's perfect even for a noob like me. I just fail for the inclussion of this stuff here... :(
if someone can help me to translate the codes without the use of the so called "Smarty" it could be great help... I know you guys are busy people but... I'm so noob... T_T

Re: Building Browsergames: Getting started with a templating system (PHP)

MrLollige — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 04:33:17 -0000

Yup, I indeed figured that.
However, at the moment I am still working without smarty, just because I want to fully understand exactly what is happening. Maybe I will implement smarty later on, but for now I do not really feel the need for it.
Thanks again for your great tutorial!

Re: Building Browsergames: Getting started with a templating system (PHP)

Luke — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 15:46:43 -0000

I'm not quite sure where the problem with keeping smarty in your local
directory is - as all you need to use Smarty is FTP access(not even
database).
As far as I'm aware, CakePHP is a lot more work to install than Smarty, as
it's a framework instead of just a templating engine - so I don't think that
CakePHP is the solution to your problems either.

Re: Building Browsergames: Getting started with a templating system (PHP)

MrLollige — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 07:31:41 -0000

I don't understand it either. I can of course install smarty on my devserver, but once I go public, and will not have my own server but just a standard hosting service, I will not be able to for example modify the php.ini which is required according to the installation tutorial.

Uploading the entire smarty libary to a local directory... That would not solve all my problems easily right? I would need a system that does not require anything more than FTP and database access... :/
Lets have a look at cakePHP.

Re: Building Browsergames: Getting started with a templating system (PHP)

Luke — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 11:14:31 -0000

I've definitely considered it, but unfortunately I don't really have the
time right now - I had to actually switch to only writing twice a week back
in november because life got so busy!
Contributors are more than welcome to post videos, but I'm afraid that I
won't be right now - perhaps when my schedule gets a little less hectic.

Re: Building Browsergames: Getting started with a templating system (PHP)

Customer Retention — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 02:01:28 -0000

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Re: Building Browsergames: Getting started with a templating system (PHP)

Patrik — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 20:31:17 -0000

Hello! now you maybe will think iam an total noob, but i have some trouble getting Smarty to work i should put it on the web server i have an some how install it there ? and the server i use to try this stuff out is not mine juste my schools server so i cant install everything there but the thing is shoul i just edownload the version change some names,configfiles and put it on the server and edit my .php files and it should work ???

plz dont bully me iam kinda new at this :P

Re: Building Browsergames: Getting started with a templating system (PHP)

Luke — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 13:33:11 -0000

Hi jamal,
If you're having trouble getting up and running with Smarty, I would
recommend that you contact support for your hosting plan and see if they can
install it for you.

If that doesn't work, you can also upload the entire Smarty library to a
local directory, and then just reference that in your PHP files instead of
an install directory.

Re: Building Browsergames: Getting started with a templating system (PHP)

jamal — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 11:43:51 -0000

i'm having alot of trouble with smarty -.- How would i use smarty on 000webhosting.com ? its a free server but im only practising php. but if this project is successfull i will make my own server or pay for one

Re: Building Browsergames: Getting started with a templating system (PHP)

Luke — Tue, 20 May 2008 09:32:08 -0000

Yeah. One thing that I'd like to take a look at in the future is all of the different frameworks, and potentially write a little bit about how to build a game using them - but I'm definitely going to need to research them a little bit before I can write about them and feel comfortable explaining how to use them.

Re: Building Browsergames: Getting started with a templating system (PHP)

Michele — Tue, 20 May 2008 09:15:50 -0000

I wrote a site with it http://www.mondogatto.net

There is already security built in, and a nice thing about it is that if you change the table on the database you don't need to change methods for creating/updating/deleting records on the database, thus saving a lot of coding time.

Re: Building Browsergames: Getting started with a templating system (PHP)

Luke — Sun, 18 May 2008 23:15:01 -0000

Hey Michele,

CakePHP sounds pretty neat - I'll check it out and look into writing something about it soon.