smarty, include tpl file

Question

how include file with smarty? i use this function: {include file="modules/news.tpl"}

but show error:

Warning: Smarty error: unable to read resource: "modules/news.tpl"

File exist and is in modules/news.tpl directory.

Thanks

Answer 1

Change

{include file="modules/news.tpl"}

to

{include file="./modules/news.tpl"}

This will at least determine the current location you're at.

Answer 2

While I'm not 100% sure here, I believe that Smarty resolves your includes by looking in the template_dir config variable.

See the doc: http://www.smarty.net/docs/en/variable.template.dir.tpl and http://www.smarty.net/docs/en/language.function.include.tpl .

Answer 3

Smarty requires absolute paths unfortunately. We normally set a $docroot enviroiment variable in PHP and parse it to the templates so we can use it:

{include file="$docroot/modules/news.tpl"}

I understand this is a one repeated request to smarty to be able to include templates on the same path as the current one.