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Smarty PHP Template Programming and Applications

By : Hasin Hayder, Joao Prado Maia, Lucian Gheorghe
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Smarty PHP Template Programming and Applications

By: Hasin Hayder, Joao Prado Maia, Lucian Gheorghe

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<p>Smarty is a templating engine for PHP. Designers who are used to working with HTML files can work with Smarty templates, which are HTML files with simple tags while programmers work with the underlying PHP code. The Smarty engine brings the code and templates together. The result of all this is that designers can concentrate on designing, programmers can concentrate on programming, and they don't need to get in each others way so much. Even if you are developing a site on your own, Smarty is a powerful way to make your code clearer to you and others, as well as easier to debug and modify later.</p>

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Smarty PHP Template Programming and Applications
Hasin Hayder | Joao Prado Maia | Lucian Gheorghe
Apr, 2006 | 256 pages
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Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Smarty PHP Template Programming and Applications
Smarty PHP Template Programming and Applications
Credits
Credits
About the Authors
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
About the Reviewer
Preface
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Introduction to Smarty
Introduction to Smarty
Templating Systems
A Rough Guide to the Software Design Process
Smarty—The Ultimate Templating System for PHP
Smarty’s Main Features
Smarty Internals
Installing and Configuring Smarty
Upgrading a Smarty Site
Summary
2
Smarty Site Architecture
Smarty Site Architecture
Separation of Concerns
Roles Involved in Building and Maintaining a Website
Starting a Smarty Project
Summary
3
What Designers Need to Know
What Designers Need to Know
Development Team Problems: Common Scenarios
Roles of a Template Designer and a Programmer
Definitions and Concepts for Designers
Choosing an Editor for Template Design
Collaborating with Programmers
Summary
4
Creating a Template
Creating a Template
Design Concepts, from HTML to TPL
Introduction to Smarty Variables
Starting Templates
Basic Templating
Templates in the Real World
Summary
5
Advanced Templating
Advanced Templating
Smarty under the Hood
Stretch your Imagination with Smarty
Available Modifiers
Combining Modifiers
Configuration Files
Summary
6
Smarty Functions
Smarty Functions
Types of Smarty Functions
Functions in Action
Action: Re-using Page Elements with the include Function
Explanation
Inserting Dynamic Content
Passing Variables to Included Templates
Saving Variables in Configuration Files
Creating Configuration Sections for Each Page
Handling Lists in Templates
Removing Extra White Space from Templates
Handling JavaScript Code in Templates
Processing Deeply Nested Arrays
Cycling Through a List of Values
Avoiding Spam Indexers
Form-Related Functions
More Form-Related Functions
Summary
7
Debugging for Designers
Debugging for Designers
Debugging Smarty Templates
Semantic Errors
Common Smarty Errors
Other Common Smarty Errors
Smarty Debug Console
Summary
8
Built-in Smarty Variables and Methods
Built-in Smarty Variables and Methods
Built-in Smarty Variables
Built-in Smarty Methods
Summary
9
Caching and Performance
Caching and Performance
Caching in Smarty
Dynamically Caching Template Sections
Clearing the Cache
Advanced Caching Features
Using Cache Groups
Clearing a Cache Group
Avoiding the Cache
Creating a Custom Cache Handler
Optimizing Smarty Applications
Profiling PHP
Designing Sites for Effective Caching
Tools: ApacheBench (ab)
Tools: Xdebug
Tools: WinCacheGrind
Summary
10
Extending Smarty with Plug-ins
Extending Smarty with Plug-ins
Finding and Installing Plug-ins
Useful Plug-ins
Writing your own Plug-ins
Plug-in Types
Registering Plug-ins
Example Plug-in: Calendar
Example Plug-in: Auto-link URLs
Summary
11
Filters
Filters
Prefilters
Postfilters
Output Filters
Creating Filters
Registering a Filter at Run Time
Manually Loading a Filter
Automatically Loading a Filter
Filter #1: Remove HTML Comments
Filter #2: Benchmark Information
Filter #3: Compress Output with gzip
Filter #4: Search Engine Highlight
Summary
12
Internationalization
Internationalization
Translation Infrastructure: Gettext
Configuring PHP with Gettext
Simple PHP Example
Setting Up the Gettext Files
Using Gettext with Smarty
Generating a PO File
Advanced Features of Smarty Gettext
Summary
Index
Index

About the Authors

João Prado Maia is Lead Software Developer with Alert Logic, Inc. and was previously with MySQL AB as the lead developer behind Eventum, an issue tracking system, and MySQL Network, a subscription product for everything related to MySQL services. He has been working with PHP, Smarty, and PEAR for several years, and maintains phpbrasil.com, one of the most popular PHP-related community sites in Brazil. He is also interested in fostering a community of PHP developers in Houston by organizing the Houston PHP Users Group at http://houstonphp.org.

I would like to thank my wife for her encouragement and patience while I was writing chapters for this book. I dedicate my work to you, Juliana.

Hasin Hayder graduated in Civil Engineering from Rajshahi University of Engineering and Technology (RUET). He is an open-source enthusiast who has been programming since early 2001. He maintains phpXperts, the largest PHP user group in Bangladesh, and Zephyr, an open-source AJAX-based MVC framework for PHP5 developers. He is currently working as a web application developer in a Norwegian software development company, “Somewhere In...”. You can reach him at .

I would like to thank my editors from Packt Publishing, David Barnes, Rushabh Sanghavi, and Patricia Weir for this book. Without them I doubt I would have completed my chapters so easily. I would also like to thank Damian and Arnab in Packt Publishing for their help.

Thanks also go to Mom, Dad, all my family members, Mahbub bhai, Rashidul Hasan and all my friends for supporting me. And finally I would like to thank Ashikuzzaman Fahim and Arild Klokkerhaug, who inspire me a lot.

I would like to dedicate this book to my wife and my best friend Ayesha. I know I could not live here without you.

Lucian Gheorghe is currently working as a senior network engineer for Globtel Internet, a significant Internet and Telephony Services Provider to the Romanian market. Even if it’s not his main activity, He has been programming in PHP for over 5 years building billing interfaces, industrial software interfaces, e-commerce sites, and so on. He had a lot of help from a friend called Smarty in his programming experiences.

Lucian got his first taste of writing when he contributed a few chapters to the book Beginning PHP 5 and MySQL E-Commerce by Cristian Darie and Mihai Bucica, Apress, 2004, with his appendix for Project Management added to the book Beginning ASP.NET 2.0 E-Commerce in C# 2005 by Cristian Darie and Karli Watson, Apress, 2005.

I would like to thank you for buying this book, my parents for everything they did for me, my girlfriend who stood by me, the team at Globtel, which is like a second family for me and last, but not least a very good friend, the greatest technical author alive—Cristian Darie.

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