Custom Manager Pages and Smarty

Following the tutorial here: http://rtfm.modx.com/display/revolution20/Custom+Manager+Pages

I try to use a smarty template that I save at /manager/assets/templates/games.tpl.

That file contains just this: "<strong>games here</strong>".

When I hit the components dropdown menu and select my "games" workspace I get the error below.

If /core/components/games/indexp.php contains "return $modx->smarty->fetch( '/manager/assets/templates/games.tpl' );" I get the error below.

If /core/components/games/indexp.php contains "return '<h2 class="modx-page-header">Games</h2>';" it works just fine.

Is something not setup correctly? Thank you in advance for any responses.

Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'SmartyException' with message 'Unable to load template file '/manager/assets/templates/games.tpl'' in E:\Shared\web\pcgamescout\core\model\smarty\sysplugins\smarty_internal_template.php:162 Stack trace: #0 E:\Shared\web\pcgamescout\core\model\smarty\sysplugins\smarty_internal_template.php(537): Smarty_Internal_Template->isExisting(true) #1 E:\Shared\web\pcgamescout\core\model\smarty\Smarty.class.php(335): Smarty_Internal_Template->getRenderedTemplate() #2 E:\Shared\web\pcgamescout\core\model\modx\smarty\modsmarty.class.php(143): Smarty->fetch('/manager/assets...') #3 E:\Shared\web\pcgamescout\core\components\games\index.php(6): modSmarty->fetch('/manager/assets...') #4 E:\Shared\web\pcgamescout\core\model\modx\modmanagerresponse.class.php(83): include('E:\Shared\web\p...') #5 E:\Shared\web\pcgamescout\core\model\modx\modmanagerrequest.class.php(182): modManagerResponse->outputContent(Array) #6 E:\Shared\web\pcgamescout\core\model\modx\modmanagerrequest.class.php(133): modManagerRequest->pr in E:\Shared\web\pcgamescout\core\model\smarty\sysplugins\smarty_internal_template.php on line 162

I'm not a Smarty expert, but I think the Smarty template path is manager/templates/ or manager/templates/default/.

Try putting your file there and using just the filename in the fetch().

I've tried both of those locations and used just the filename as you suggested, but still no go. I get the same error message.

I even tried copying this line: "return $modx->smarty->fetch('resource/staticresource/update.tpl');" right out of \core\model\modx\modmanagerrequest.class.php and I still get the same error.

Okay, thanks to this forum topic on smarty.net I was able to get it to work.

http://www.smarty.net/forums/viewtopic.php?p=69683

"The relative dir will be relative to the executing script, so looking at your directory structure, the template_dir setting may need to be ../smarty/demo/templates or just use the absolute system filepath to be sure."

Here's what worked for me:

I'm glad you got it working. Thanks for reporting back -- I'm sure that information will help other users down the road.

<spam> [ed. note: markh last edited this post 14 years ago.]