using an existing Smarty-installation for Blog and Website?

[peggylon]

Hello,

I'm Smarty fan and have my website (on a shared server) running with it.
the folder structure is as follows:

html/multikulinarisch/ -> contains the website's files and stylesheets and is referred to by domain www.multikulinarisch.de
html/multikulinarisch/smarty/ -> contains smarty templates, libs, templates_c, etc.
html/multikulinarisch/blog/ -> is going to contain the blog files (serendipity); is referred to by domain www.multikulinarisch.es

I'm wondering, whether there is a chance to use one smarty-installation for everything... If so, I'll happily re-install...

In case that's impossible, another question comes up:
I uploaded serendipity without problems into folder html/multikulinarisch/blog/ and installed without faults.
When trying to go to my blog the error message was:

serendipity error: could not include /home/www/web80/html/multikulinarisch/blog//serendipity_config_local.inc.php

I changed in the database's config table
serendipityPath to 'http://www.multikulinarisch.es/' (same as BaseURL) and
serendipityHTTPPath to '/'
The error remains the same.

Thanks for any help in advance,
peggylon

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

Serendipity is able to use Smarty through a central "PEAR" directory. So if you have your include_path set to contain a dir like /usr/local/lib/php and you put a "Smarty" directory into it, this gets precedence over the one deliveredwith serendipity.

Compiled templates will still be put into "templates_c" of your blog directory, there's no way around that (apart from hacking the source)

About the error: Is the path mentioned in the error message the right one? Is the serendipity_config_local.inc.php file existing and readable (permissions?)

serendipityPath must contain a PATH not a URL.

HTH,
Garvin

[peggylon]

Hi Garvin,

thanks for the speedy reply.
I got the error fixed by setting serendipityPath to
'/home/www/web80/html/multikulinarisch/blog/' (as it had been before) AND serendipityHTTPPath ''.

Concerning the shared Smarty-libs:
I'll check with my provider whether that's possible...

Thanx for your help,
peggylon