aaron/smarty-view

Smarty view engine incl. View Composer support for Laravel 4

Smarty for Laravel 4.1

Somewhat hacky implementation of Smarty for Laravel 4.1., _(*1)

Unlike Twig and other template engines for Laravel (other than raw PHP and Blade), this supports View Composers., _(*2)

Undefined variables (and other E_NOTICE errors) are also silently allowed, as a matter of personal preference and because it's generally the Smarty way of doing things., _(*3)

Smarty itself has been included because file edits were required for View Composer support. It should not be upgraded without these being merged, unless you don't care about View Composers., _(*4)

Installation

You can install this through composer with:, _(*5)

"dark/smarty-view": "dev-master"

in composer.json -> "require"., _(*6)

If you're using Laravel 4.0 still, swap "dev-master" for "dev-laravel-4.0", _(*7)

Usage

To use, add to config/app.php -> providers:, _(*8)

'Dark\SmartyView\SmartyViewServiceProvider',

Then simply reference templates using the normal dot syntax of Laravel., _(*9)

For example to load smarty template views/blog/post.tpl, you would use View::make('blog.post')., _(*10)

In Smarty {include} or {extends} tags, you should continue to use the full directory syntax, e.g. {extends file="blog/post.tpl"}., _(*11)