Installation - Windows, IIS/Apache, PHP5 Extract files, rename Smarty.x.x.x to smarty (suggest OUTSIDE of your www root!) Example: d:/smarty Run phpinfo.php to find out your php.ini location Edit php.ini's include_path and add the location of the libs folder. example: include_path = ".;d:/smarty/libs" Restart IIS/Apache Setup these two folders INSIDE your www root: (wwwroot)/smarty/templates (this is where your templates will go) (wwwroot)/smarty/configs
Setup these two folders OUTSIDE of your www root: d:/smarty/templates_c d:/smarty/cache
Setup security settings for the webserver to write to these four folders
In (wwwroot) create index.php and in (wwwroot)/smarty/templates/index.tpl with the following code:
If you are getting an error that Smarty.class.php isn't found chances are that your include_path isn't correct or you didn't edit the one that the webserver is using, check your phpinfo.php!