I would like to run several subdomains using smarty. Each subdomain
would be a separate instance of smarty. Can I use the same folders
(i.e. template, template_c, cache, configs) for more than one instance
of Smarty?

/domain/template
/domain/template_c
/domain/cache
/domain/configs
/domain/subdomains/subdomain1
/domain/subdomains/subdomain2
....

On 1 Jun 2006, at 04:58, Tony K. wrote:

> I would like to run several subdomains using smarty. Each subdomain
> would be a separate instance of smarty. Can I use the same folders
> (i.e. template, template_c, cache, configs) for more than one instance
> of Smarty?
>
> /domain/template
> /domain/template_c
> /domain/cache
> /domain/configs
> /domain/subdomains/subdomain1
> /domain/subdomains/subdomain2

Yes. Just set $smarty->template_dir to an absolute path. You will run
into problems with name clashes however - e.g. if domain 1 and 2 both
have an index.tpl, they will point at the same file. Alternatively,
you could create a new resource type that managed multiple template
locations: http://smarty.php.net/manual/en/template.resources.php

Matt Zandstra's talk at the PHP London conference was all about a
structure like this: http://www.phpconference.co.uk/2006/talks/
the_template_path_-_matt_zandstra.html
I'm looking to see if i can find an online version of the talk.

Marcus
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On 01/06/06, Marcus Bointon <marcus@synchromedia.co.uk> wrote:
> On 1 Jun 2006, at 04:58, Tony K. wrote:
>
> > I would like to run several subdomains using smarty. Each subdomain
> > would be a separate instance of smarty. Can I use the same folders
> > (i.e. template, template_c, cache, configs) for more than one instance
> > of Smarty?
> >
> > /domain/template
> > /domain/template_c
> > /domain/cache
> > /domain/configs
> > /domain/subdomains/subdomain1
> > /domain/subdomains/subdomain2
>
> Yes. Just set $smarty->template_dir to an absolute path. You will run
> into problems with name clashes however - e.g. if domain 1 and 2 both
> have an index.tpl, they will point at the same file. Alternatively,
> you could create a new resource type that managed multiple template
> locations: http://smarty.php.net/manual/en/template.resources.php
>
> Matt Zandstra's talk at the PHP London conference was all about a
> structure like this: http://www.phpconference.co.uk/2006/talks/
> the_template_path_-_matt_zandstra.html
> I'm looking to see if i can find an online version of the talk.

I use a file I call sandbox.php to setup a number of variables that
can be later used by Smarty to write it's cache and compiled templates
into (then I run an extended smarty object to use them). At the
centre of it, is a directory hierarchy created outside of the document
root (I normally put it based at at /homes/sites/), and then a
directory per site on a per-server-name or http_host-name, which keeps
things seperate.

It may even be worthy of a quick presentation at PHPLondon sometime.

Alister

Marcus Bointon wrote:
> On 1 Jun 2006, at 04:58, Tony K. wrote:
>
>> I would like to run several subdomains using smarty. Each subdomain
>> would be a separate instance of smarty. Can I use the same folders
>> (i.e. template, template_c, cache, configs) for more than one instance
>> of Smarty?
>>
>> /domain/template
>> /domain/template_c
>> /domain/cache
>> /domain/configs
>> /domain/subdomains/subdomain1
>> /domain/subdomains/subdomain2
>
> Yes. Just set $smarty->template_dir to an absolute path. You will run
> into problems with name clashes however - e.g. if domain 1 and 2 both
> have an index.tpl, they will point at the same file. Alternatively,
> you could create a new resource type that managed multiple template
> locations: http://smarty.php.net/manual/en/template.resources.php
Or use compile_id to avoid name clashes.
For example:
$smarty->compile_id = $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'];


Greetings,
Jan Rosier

Tony K. wrote:
> I would like to run several subdomains using smarty. Each subdomain
> would be a separate instance of smarty. Can I use the same folders
> (i.e. template, template_c, cache, configs) for more than one instance
> of Smarty?
>
> /domain/template
> /domain/template_c
> /domain/cache
> /domain/configs
> /domain/subdomains/subdomain1
> /domain/subdomains/subdomain2
> ...

Am doing exactly as your suggesting....
I have one file "common_config.php" that contains the smarty init code
and the following 2 lines
$smarty->compile_id = $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'];
$smarty->compile_dir = '/www/shared_smarty_compile_dir';

have fun
Pete