Editing Smarty (template engine) (section)

== Smarty example ==
Since Smarty separates PHP from HTML, there are two files — one contains the presentation code: an HTML template, including Smarty variables and tags - <syntaxhighlight lang="smarty" inline>{$title_text|escape} {$body_html}</syntaxhighlight> - which might look like this:
<syntaxhighlight lang="html+smarty">
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
   <meta charset="utf-8">
   <title>{$title_text|escape}</title>
</head>

<body> {* This is a little comment that won't be visible in the HTML source *}
{$body_html}
</body> <!-- this is a little comment that will be seen in the HTML source -->
</html>
</syntaxhighlight>

The [[business logic]] to use the Smarty template above could be as follows:
<syntaxhighlight lang="php">
define('SMARTY_DIR', 'smarty-2.6.22/');
require_once(SMARTY_DIR . 'Smarty.class.php');

$smarty = new Smarty();
$smarty->template_dir = './templates/';
$smarty->compile_dir = './templates/compile/';

$smarty->assign('title_text', 'TITLE: This is the Smarty basic example ...');
$smarty->assign('body_html', '<p>BODY: This is the message set using assign()</p>');

$smarty->display('index.tpl');
</syntaxhighlight>