monstergfx/smarty-view

Smarty view engine incl. View Composer support for Laravel 4. A fork of Dark/SmartyView

Smarty for Laravel 4

Very hacky implementation of Smarty for Laravel 4., _(*1)

Unlike Twig and basically anything besides raw PHP and Blade, this mostly supports View Composers (at least when the events are used to define variables and when smarty {extends} or {include} tags are used)., _(*2)

Undefined variables (and other E_NOTICE errors) are also silently allowed, as a matter of personal preference., _(*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)

Please note that this is a fork of the Dark\SmartyView package. The only change (as of Oct 30, 2013) is the inclusion of the most recent version of Smarty (3.1.14)., _(*5)

Installation

You can install this through composer with:, _(*6)

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

in composer.json -> "require"., _(*7)

Usage

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

'MonsterGfx\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'). In Smarty {include} or {extends} tags, you should continue to use the full directory syntax, e.g. {extends file="blog/post.tpl"}., _(*10)