Smarty PHP Template Programming and Applications Table of Contents

Table of Contents

• 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