A simple class that could be used as the custom view element in a Zend Framework 1 application NOTE: This class uses the SmartyBC.class.php instead of the normal Smarty.class.php
Configurations can be set in the application.ini. It accepts all the configurations for the smarty template engine and also a few other custom ones. Below is a sample configuration:
; smarty smarty.caching =0; caching will be done with zend_cache smarty.cache_lifetime = 14400 ; 4 hours smarty.compile_dir = APPLICATION_PATH "/../smarty/templates_c/" smarty.config_dir = "" smarty.debugging = false smarty.cache_dir = APPLICATION_PATH "/../smarty/cache/" smarty.left_delimiter = "{" smarty.right_delimiter = "}" smarty.php_handling = 0 smarty.compile_check = FALSE smarty.force_compile = 0; smarty.error_reporting = 0;E_ALL smarty.default_template = "default.tpl"
Also you could do additional configuration inside the Bootstrap.php inside the application folder to swap the default Zend_View with this one. Here is a sample code for that
protected function _initView() { $config = $this->getOption('smarty'); $view = new ZendExt_View_Smarty3(null,$config); //setup viewrenderer with the suffix and view $viewRenderer = Zend_Controller_Action_HelperBroker::getStaticHelper('viewRenderer'); $viewRenderer->setViewSuffix('tpl'); $viewRenderer->setView($view); // Set the default pagination controls html file Zend_Paginator::setDefaultScrollingStyle('Elastic'); Zend_View_Helper_PaginationControl::setDefaultViewPartial('includes/controls.tpl'); return $view; }
There is an issue with the Zend_Loader_Autloader and the smarty class's autoload. Sometimes they conflict. To avoid this issue, instrcut the zend autoloader to NOT attempt autoloading any class starting with "Smarty_" and also manually include the smartyBC.class.php file before instantiation the class. Again here is an example
protected function initAutoload() { // Add autoloader empty namespace $autoloader = Zend_Loader_Autoloader::getInstance(); $autoloader->registerNamespace(array('ZendExt')); $autoloader->setFallbackAutoloader(true); $autoloader->suppressNotFoundWarnings(false); /** * Zend’s autoloader is trying to load a class internal * to Smarty’s structure, and since Zend isn’t aware of it, * the autoloader can’t find the class. * The solution is to tell Zend to ignore all classes * beginning with ‘Smarty_’. * The solution is to tell zend autoloader to ignore all * classes starting with Smarty_ * */ $autoloader->pushAutoloader(NULL, 'Smarty_' ); return $autoloader; }