[SMARTY] Re: reading php and tpl files from somewhere else (windows) - a bit long

Very Interesting

This is a site I'm working on in spare time and the bottom of the page 
might help..
http://smarty.daffodil.uk.com/smarty_starter/index.php?page=install

Its WIP and unofficial ..

pete




George Pitcher wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Almost all of my 12 sites use Smarty - and its great.
> 
> However, 7 of these are pretty much identical in terms of templates and php
> code. The differences are in the database connection, customer logo and some
> of the wording used in system generated emails etc. I handle these using
> includes and a config file. I'm hoping that more customers sign up for my
> service and would like to simplify my maintenance of these sites.
> 
> A typical site structure would look like this:
> 
> WEBFOLDER
>   all php and html pages (91 and 2 respectively)
>   INCLUDES folder with config file, function file and other site related
> docs (javascripts, Word templates etc)
>   IMAGES folder with customer logos
>   TEMPLATES folder with 78 templates
>   TEMPLATES_C folder for built templates
> 
> I would like to split this so that it looks like:
> 
> WEBFOLDER
>   INCLUDES
>   IMAGES
>   TEMPLATES_C
> 
> SHARED FOLDER
>   all php/html files
>   TEMPLATES folder
> 
> I'm currently using IIS for most of these sites on NT4 and two sites are on
> Apache2 on NT4 and the company policy is to upgrade server software to Win
> 2003 Server by the end of 2005 (seeing will be believing).
> 

> Can anyone suggest a method of achieving my desired objective? I'm happy to
> look at non-Smarty suggestions such as including folders, if that is
> possible.
> 
> MTIA
> 
> George in Oxford

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