Smarty Extension for Yii 2

1. Installation
2. Usage

This extension provides a ViewRender that would allow you to use Smarty view template engine with Yii framework 2.0.

For license information check the LICENSE-file.

Documentation is at docs/guide/README.md.

Installation ¶

[!IMPORTANT]

• The minimum required PHP version is PHP 7.4.
• It works best with PHP 8.

The preferred way to install this extension is through composer.

Either run

php composer.phar require --prefer-dist yiisoft/yii2-smarty

or add

"yiisoft/yii2-smarty": "~2.0.0"

to the require section of your composer.json.

Note that the smarty composer package is distributed using subversion so you may need to install subversion.

Usage ¶

To use this extension, simply add the following code in your application configuration:

return [
    //....
    'components' => [
        'view' => [
            'renderers' => [
                'tpl' => [
                    'class' => 'yii\smarty\ViewRenderer',
                    //'cachePath' => '@runtime/Smarty/cache',
                ],
            ],
        ],
    ],
];