Mark
http://www.outsourceitindia.com

replace
$paths = $this->getScriptPaths();
$arg = func_get_arg(0);
foreach ($paths as $path) {
if ($file = substr($arg, strlen($path))) {
$this->_smarty->template_dir = $path;
break;
}
}

with

$paths = $this->getScriptPaths();
$arg = func_get_arg(0);
foreach ($paths as $path) {
//next line added by matthew phinney @ Zend to stop problems with
// render() – issue ZF-5062
if (0 === strpos($arg,$path)) {
if ($file = substr($arg, strlen($path))) {
$this->_smarty->template_dir = $path;
break;
}
}
}

This fixes that issue and means that smarty will observe Zend_View rendering rules.

protected function _run()
{
$this->strictVars(true);

//assign variables to the template engine
$vars = get_object_vars($this);
foreach ($vars as $key => $value) {
if (‘_’ != substr($key, 0, 1)) {
$this->_smarty->assign($key, $value);
}
}

//why ‘this’?
//to emulate standard zend view functionality
//doesn’t mess up smarty in any way
$this->_smarty->assign_by_ref(‘this’, $this);

//smarty needs a template_dir, and can only use templates,
//found in that directory, so we have to strip it from the filename
//This checks the default application/smarty/template directory
// as well as the module views/scripts directory to find the template
$paths = $this->getScriptPaths();
$arg = func_get_arg(0);
foreach ($paths as $path) {
if ($file = substr($arg, strlen($path))) {
$this->_smarty->template_dir = $path;
break;
}
}

//process the template (and filter the output)
echo $this->_smarty->fetch($file);
}

I found I needed to do this for a specific application that didn’t use teh controller view/script directories but instead used the standard smarty template directory. My change allows smarty to work with either. Hope its useful to someone. Thanks for the original code.

Thanks