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Integration Codeigniter 4 and Smarty Template Engine

Requirements

• PHP 7.3+, 8.0+
• CodeIgniter 4.0.4+
• Smarty 4.1.0+

Installation

Installation is best done via Composer. Assuming Composer is installed globally, you may use the following command:

> composer require maheswara/ci4smarty

Manual Installation

Otherwise you can install manually:

1. Download smarty and ci4smarty and put in app/ThirdParty folder

   • https://github.com/smarty-php/smarty/archive/refs/tags/v4.1.0.zip
   • https://github.com/jerry-maheswara-github/ci4smarty/archive/refs/tags/v1.0.0.zip

2. Edit and add this line on app/Config/Autoload.php

    public $psr4 = [
        'Ci4Smarty'   => APPPATH . 'ThirdParty/ci4smarty-1.0.0/src'
    ];
   
    public $classmap = [
        'Smarty'   => APPPATH . 'ThirdParty/smarty-4.1.0/libs/Smarty.class.php',
    ];
   

Controller

The easy way to implement this, is by extends your controller from SmartyController.

use Ci4Smarty\Controllers\SmartyController;

class BaseController extends SmartyController{
    
}

Config

You can override config by adding file SmartyConfig.php to app/Config folder and change it

<?php
    namespace Config;
    use CodeIgniter\Config\BaseConfig;
    class SmartyConfig extends BaseConfig
    {
        public static $fileExtension = '.tpl';
        public static $templateDir = APPPATH . 'Views';
        public static $compileDir = WRITEPATH . 'templates_c';
        public static $cacheDir = WRITEPATH . 'caches';
        public static $configDir = APPPATH . 'Views/configs';
    }

Features

This is the features:

• Auto render template base on Controller class and method like: home/index or if url segment is under folder like: admin/dashboard/index
• You can also render manually: $this->render('home/index'); or $this->render('home/index', $data); where $data is array or object
• If you like to change layout you can add $this->setLayout('layout'); before render, and add {$content} in the layout file as a container of rendered template
• You can also use smarty {extend} syntax to implement your layout
• You can stop render by $this->setRendered(true); if you want to debug or print_r your code and eliminate the default exception;
• Don't forget the extension of each template file is .tpl (smarty)