Question

I am trying to get Smarty setup and working, so that I can install the open-source project here

http://sourceforge.net/projects/assign-calc/

After following the install instructions, I get stuck with the following error message

<b>Fatal error</b>:  Uncaught exception 'SmartyCompilerException' with message 'Syntax Error in template &quot;/var/www/dev/calendar/skins/rpc/tmpl/page/rpc_header.tpl&quot;  on line 5 &quot;         {$application.long_name|escape}&quot; unknown modifier &quot;escape&quot;' in /usr/lib/php5/Smarty/Smarty/sysplugins/smarty_internal_templatecompilerbase.php:423
Stack trace:
#0 /usr/lib/php5/Smarty/Smarty/sysplugins/smarty_internal_compile_private_modifier.php(62): Smarty_Internal_TemplateCompilerBase-&gt;trigger_template_error('unknown modifie...', 5)
#1 /usr/lib/php5/Smarty/Smarty/sysplugins/smarty_internal_templatecompilerbase.php(279): Smarty_Internal_Compile_Private_Modifier-&gt;compile(Array, Object(Smarty_Internal_SmartyTemplateCompiler), Array, NULL, NULL)
#2 /usr/lib/php5/Smarty/Smarty/sysplugins/smarty_internal_templatecompilerbase.php(123): Smarty_Internal_TemplateCompilerBase-&gt;callTagCompiler('private_modifie...', Array, Array)
#3 /usr/lib/php5/Smarty/Smarty/sysplugins/smarty_internal_compile_private_print_expression.php(68): Smarty_Internal_TemplateCompilerBase in <b>/usr/lib/php5/Smarty/Smarty/sysplugins/smarty_internal_templatecompilerbase.php</b> on line <b>423</b><br />

After a bit of googling, I think the problem is being cause by Smarty not reading the escape modifier in the plugins directory.

How do I resolve this? I’ve even tried 777 the permissions on smarty, but that hasnt change anything…

Answer 1

Have you loaded the smarty configuration correctly? In particular, have you setted correctly the plugin path, through the command

$smarty->addPluginsDir('path/to/plugins');

?