History: HowtoUseExternalSmarty

edit setup_smarty.php in tikiroot directory to include external smarty

define('SMARTY_DIR', "/usr/lib/php/Smarty/");

require_once ( '/usr/lib/php/Smarty/Smarty.class.php');

and below edit the plugins_dir array, that dirname stuff is unneccessary:

$this->plugins_dir = array(»····// the directory order must be like  this to overload a plugin
 "lib/smarty_tiki",
 SMARTY_DIR."plugins"
);

Note: tiki-install.php also depends on smarty so use this after working install, or modify tiki-install.php appropriately

define('SMARTY_DIR', "/usr/lib/php/Smarty/");
 
require_once (SMARTY_DIR . 'Smarty.class.php');

and the plugins_dir array again

Note: this works with latest Smarty 2.6.7 at the time of writing ang

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