Smarty PHP Template Programming and Applications

Table of Contents

Preface
Chapter 1: Introduction to Smarty
Chapter 2: Smarty Site Architecture
Chapter 3: What Designers Need to Know
Chapter 4: Creating a Template
Chapter 5: Advanced Templating
Chapter 6: Smarty Functions
Chapter 7: Debugging for Designers
Chapter 8: Built-in Smarty Variables and Methods
Chapter 9: Caching and Performance
Chapter 10: Extending Smarty with Plug-ins
Chapter 11: Filters
Chapter 12: Internationalization
Index

• Preface

• Chapter 1: Introduction to Smarty
  • Templating Systems
    • Why Use a Templating System?
    • The Smartness of Smarty
    • Smarty Alternatives
  • A Rough Guide to the Software Design Process
    • Working in Teams: Layers and Separation of Concerns
  • Smarty—The Ultimate Templating System for PHP
    • Is Smarty Fast?
    • Is Smarty Secure?
  • Smarty's Main Features
    • Variable Modifiers
    • Template Functions
    • Debugging
    • Plugins
    • Filters
  • Smarty Internals
  • Installing and Configuring Smarty
    • Step 1: Obtaining Smarty
    • Step 2: Configure PHP to Find the Smarty Libraries
      • On Windows
      • On Linux
    • An Alternative to Step 2: Using Smarty without Having Full Access to the System
    • Step 3: Set Up Smarty for Your Application
    • Step 4: Verifying the Installation
    • Smarty Development Versions on CVS
  • Upgrading a Smarty Site
  • Summary

• Chapter 2: Smarty Site Architecture
  • Separation of Concerns
    • What Does Concern Mean?
    • A Problem-Solving Perspective
    • Cross-cutting Concerns
  • Roles Involved in Building and Maintaining a Website
  • Starting a Smarty Project
    • Directory Structure
    • Securing our Smarty Project
    • The Data Access Layer
      • How it Works
    • The Business Logic Layer
      • How it Works
    • The Presentation Layer
      • How it Works
    • The Result
  • Summary

• Chapter 3: What Designers Need to Know
  • Development Team Problems: Common Scenarios
  • Roles of a Template Designer and a Programmer
  • Definitions and Concepts for Designers
    • Concept of Reusability and Components
    • Splitting into Components
    • How to Design Table-less Layouts?
    • Handy Built-in Tags
  • Choosing an Editor for Template Design
  • Collaborating with Programmers
  • Summary

• Chapter 4: Creating a Template
  • Design Concepts, from HTML to TPL
  • Introduction to Smarty Variables
  • Starting Templates
    • Nonassociative Array
    • Associative Array
    • Passing Arrays to Smarty Templates and Manipulating Them
  • Basic Templating
    • Logical Conditions
    • Loops
      • section
      • foreach
  • Templates in the Real World
    • Calendar
    • Database Report
    • Data Input Forms
    • Email Newsletter
    • Running PHP Code Inside your Templates
  • Summary

• Chapter 5: Advanced Templating
  • Smarty under the Hood
    • Compile Steps
    • Prefilters and Postfilters
    • What is a Smarty Modifier?
  • Stretch your Imagination with Smarty
    • Student Transcript
    • Photo Gallery
  • Available Modifiers
    • capitalize
    • count_characters
    • cat
    • count_paragraphs
    • count_words
    • date_format
    • default
    • escape
    • indent
    • lower
    • upper
    • nl2br
    • regex_replace
    • replace
    • spacify
    • string_format
    • strip
    • strip_tags
    • truncate
    • wordwrap
  • Combining Modifiers
  • Configuration Files
  • Summary

• Chapter 6: 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

• Chapter 7: Debugging for Designers
  • Debugging Smarty Templates
  • Semantic Errors
  • Common Smarty Errors
  • Other Common Smarty Errors
  • Smarty Debug Console
  • Summary

• Chapter 8: Built-in Smarty Variables and Methods
  • Built-in Smarty Variables
    • $template_dir
    • $compile_dir
    • $config_dir
    • $plugins_dir
    • $debugging
    • $error_reporting
    • $debug_tpl
    • $debugging_ctrl
    • $compile_check
    • $force_compile
    • $caching
    • $cache_dir
    • $cache_lifetime
    • $cache_modified_check
    • $php_handling
    • $security
    • $secure_dir
    • $security_settings
    • $trusted_dir
    • $left_delimiter
    • $right_delimiter
    • $request_vars_order
    • $request_use_auto_globals
    • $compile_id
    • $use_sub_dirs
    • $default_modifiers
    • $default_resource_type
    • $cache_handler_func
    • $autoload_filters
    • $config_overwrite
    • $config_booleanize
    • $config_read_hidden
    • $config_fix_newlines
    • $default_template_handler_func
    • $compiler_file
    • $compiler_class
    • $config_class
  • Handy Built-in Smarty Variables Table

• Built-in Smarty Methods
  • assign
  • assign_by_ref
  • Example: Working of assign and assign_by_ref
  • append
  • append_by_ref
  • clear_assign
  • register_function
  • unregister_function
  • register_object
  • unregister_object
  • register_block
  • unregister_block
  • register_compiler_function
  • unregister_compiler_function
  • register_modifier
  • unregister_modifier
  • register_resource
  • unregister_resource
  • register_prefilter
  • unregister_prefilter
  • register_postfilter
  • unregister_postfilter
  • register_outputfilter
  • unregister_outputfilter
  • load_filter
  • clear_cache
  • clear_all_cache
  • is_cached
  • clear_all_assign
  • clear_compiled_tpl
  • template_exists
  • get_template_vars
  • get_config_vars
  • trigger_error
  • display
  • fetch
  • config_load
  • get_registered_object
  • clear_config

• Summary

• Chapter 9: 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
    • The LastModified and ETag Headers
    • The Expires Header
    • The CacheControl Header

• Tools: ApacheBench (ab)
• Tools: Xdebug
• Tools: WinCacheGrind
• Summary

• Chapter 10: Extending Smarty with Plug-ins
  • Finding and Installing Plug-ins
  • Useful Plug-ins
    • HTML List Plug-in
    • File Size Format Plug-in
    • Google Highlight Plug-in
  • Writing your own Plug-ins
  • Plug-in Types
    • Functions
    • Modifiers
    • Block Functions
    • Compiler Functions
    • Prefilters, Postfilters, and Output Filters
    • Resources
    • Inserts
  • Registering Plug-ins
  • Example Plug-in: Calendar
  • Example Plug-in: Auto-link URLs
  • Summary

• Chapter 11: 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

• Chapter 12: 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