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Installation

To install Smarty, visit http://www.smarty.net/download.php and download the latest ZIP archive. Once it’s downloaded, you need to perform the following steps:

1. Extract the contents of the downloaded file into a suitable folder.

2. Determine your web server document’s root by running the following PHP snippet (if you don’t already know it):

   <?php echo $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']; ?>

3. Create a new folder called Smarty in this document root.

4. Open the extracted folder, navigate into the libs directory, and copy the entire contents (including subfolders) into the Smarty directory you just created. You will end up with the following directory structure in your document root:

   Smarty
       internals
           (various files...)
       plugins
           (various files...)
       Config_File.class.php
       debug.tpl
       Smarty.class.php
       Smarty_Compiler.class.php

That gets Smarty installed, but you also need to create four subdirectories for every application that uses it. So create the new application directory temp just under the same document root where you just installed Smarty. This will hold the files for a temporary application that we’ll write to test Smarty.

Inside the temp directory, create another one called smarty to house the folders containing the template files. Finally, create the following subdirectories within the new smarty directory: cache, configs, templates, and templates_c. Your directory structure is now:

temp
    smarty
        cache
        configs
        templates
        templates_c