Smarty view renderer

This extension allows you to use Smarty version 3 templates in Yii.

###Resources

• Github
• Smarty
• Discuss
• Report a bug

###Requirements

• Yii 1.0 or above
• Smarty 3.0.6 or above

###Installation

• Extract the release file under protected/extensions.
• Download and extract libs folder contents of Smarty package under protected/vendors/Smarty.
• Move files from plugins folder to protected/vendors/Smarty/plugins.
• Add the following to your config file 'components' section:

<?php
// ...
'viewRenderer'=>array(
  'class'=>'application.extensions.yiiext.renderers.smarty.ESmartyViewRenderer',
    'fileExtension' => '.tpl',
    //'pluginsDir' => 'application.smartyPlugins',
    //'configDir' => 'application.smartyConfig',
    //'prefilters' => array(array('MyClass','filterMethod')),
    //'postfilters' => array(),
    //'config'=>array(
    //    'force_compile' => YII_DEBUG,
    //	  'debugging'	  => false,
    //   ... any Smarty object parameter
    //)
),

There are some more options on configuring Smarty properties now. Will add documentation soon.

###Usage

• Smarty documentation.
• You can use Yii aliases for including files inside the template. For example:

	You have to set path without extension
	{extends file="application.views.layout.main"} 
	{include file="application.views.controller._form"}
	
	Also you can use regular Smarty syntax for file path wich relative to current `views` directory:
	{include file="controller/_form.tpl"}

• Current controller properties are accessible via {$this->pageTitle}.
• Yii properties are available as follows: {Yii::app()->theme->baseUrl}.
• Used memory is stored in {$MEMORY}, used time is in {$TIME}.
• In controllers: $this->renderFile('path/from/views/to/template.tpl', array('var1' => 'value1'));

###Smarty Plugins

• widget and begin_widget plugins allow use Yii widgets in this way:

	{*Render widget without params*}
	{widget name="path.to.widget.Class"} 

	{*You can set params by passing it in the widget-function*}
	{widget name="Breadcrumbs" links=['Library'=>'#', 'Data'] someParam="someValue"}
  
 	{*Another syntax. *}
	{begin_widget name="bootstrap.widgets.TbModal" id='anotherModalDialog' options=[backdrop=>static] otherParam="value" [...]}
        	{*Widget object are accessible via {$widget} variable inside the block *}
        	{$widget->some_widget_method_or_variable} 
  	{/begin_widget} 

• Form plugin is a syntax-sugar plugin for Yii ActiveForm. Syntax:

   {form name="product_form" id='form' type='horizontal' otherParam="value" [...]}
		{*Form object are accessible via variable with name equal to form name*}
        {$product_form->textFieldRow($this->model, 'name', ['class'=>'span5','maxlength'=>255])}
   {/form} 

• t() function allows to translate strings using Yii::t(). Syntax:

  {t text="text to translate" cat="app"}
  {t text="text to translate" cat="app" src="en" lang="ru"}
  {t text="text to translate" cat="app" params=$params}

• link function allows to generate links using CHtml::link(). Syntax:

  {link text="test"}
  {link text="test" url="controller/action?param=value"}
  {link text="test" url="/absolute/url"}
  {link text="test" url="http://host/absolute/url"}