Using Smarty

Is there a GUI or somethign for Smarty? Or do I just edit the html templates directly?

Derek

Here is great contibuted description how to customize aMember templates:

Creating Header and Footer Files

The easiest way to create custom header and footer files is to start with an existing page on your site. Follow these steps:

* Open an existing page on your site and save it in a new name - say amtemplate.html

* Remove all the content you do not wish to include in the aMember pages.

* You need to change all the urls in the HTML from relative to absolute. Links, image paths and so on must all be changed.

For example if you have a link to your home page that reads
<a href=index.html>
this must be changed to
<a href=http://www.yoursite.com/index.html>

Similarly if you have an image called using
<img src=../images/image.gif> it needs to be amended to
<img src=http://www.yoursite.com/images/image.gif>

(Alternatively you can edit all URLs to be relative from the root. This means all will begin with a forward slash - eg "/images/image.gif")

* From the aMember template file /templates/header.html, copy the CSS information into the head area of your page.

* Now write the word "HERE" in the part of the page where you want the script pages to appear, this is usually the main part of the page.

* The content of the page which appears above the word "HERE" is your header - copy it into a new file and save as header.html

* The content of the page which appears below the word "HERE" is your footer - copy it into a new file and save as footer.html

* Replace the aMember files /templates/header.html and /templates/footer.html with your new ones - don't forget to back up the originals first!


If you have Pro version ordered, we can help you with templates, just email us.

what i want to do is put the amember templates in my portal software. I am using vbportal.

I'm not sure if I understand your question. Please explain...
What exactly you need? Have you tried something?

I have a portal system called vbportal. you can add new content and it will add all the header and footer to it.
with this smarty thing, I can't do that. i tried doing {php}{/php} and adding the code inbetween, but i get errors.
or what if i wanted to integrate with the vb styles? how would I do that?

I can't just take my header and footer and add it to the templates of amember cause they are all dynamic.

Derek

which error you get?

errors from my Portal system cause no vars are able to be passed this way when using the php code in smarty