Smarty - what is relative template path?

[Don Chambers]

I have installed s9y dozens of times, and never once have I changed the default value for the relative template path (templates/)... but someone COULD. In various templates, this could be a problem. For instance, in bulletproof, we load certain images as follows:

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src="{$serendipityHTTPPath}templates/{$template}/img/image.png"

This would not work should a user change their configuration for the relative template path to anything other than "templates/". I do not see a variable holding the relative template path (nor any of the other configurable paths other than baseURL). Are these available via smarty?

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

Indeed, this is a problem. Actually, the suggested way to get a relative image file is to use serendipity_getFile, because that one takes the templatePath value into accordance.

Could this be done in BP? Or where does $template come from?

The templatePath variable is not put to Smarty by default, so the BP config.inc.php might need to do that assignment of $serendipity['templatePath']...

HTH,
Garvin

[Don Chambers]

We did this a LONG time ago, but we actually use both methods, including:

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src="{serendipity_getFile file="img/image.png"}"

Could it be that part of the reason is that we needed to prepend the colorset name to the image file name, and we could not do that using serendipity_getFile???? ie, this is what bp is using for previous/next images:

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<img alt="{$CONST.NEXT_PAGE}" title="{$CONST.NEXT_PAGE}" src="{$serendipityHTTPPath}templates/{$template}/img/{$template_option.colorset}_forward.png" />

And I have no idea where {$template} came from - perhaps it evolved when we were working on bp as we realized bp was to be a framework for creating other templates, so we would not know the final template's name/folder????