1-Jun-2017
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I've started working on a new project that runs on Google's App Engine. I'm using PHP in the standard environment and for my templating engine I've decided on
Smarty since that's something I've used in the past and was familiar with. It's not the cool new templating engine like
Twig but it gets the job done and can be made to work on App Engine pretty easily.
So to start, the easiest way to get Smarty into your project is to add it to the
composer.json file like so:
Afterwards follow the usual steps for adding a new dependency with
Composer. I've written a separate article about that
here.
Then create a file called
php.ini in your applications directory at the same location as your
app.yaml file. Add the following contents to that file:
What the above does is instruct App Engine to allow cached template files to be included in your app from the Cloud DataStore.
In your application code, initialise Smarty like so:
The above assumes you have a 'templates' directory with your .tpl files. The compiled templates will be stored in the default bucket in the Cloud DataStore.
Now you can use Smarty as usual.
-i
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