Smarty IDE

Smarty is a very popular Template Engine. It provides the programmer and template designer with wealth of tools to automate tasks commonly dealt with at the presentation layer of an application.

Smarty Plug-in is a part of CodeLobster IDE - Professional version

The Smarty plug-in turns a Smarty editor into a full-fledged Smarty IDE!

Smarty IDE has the following abilities to work with Smarty templates:

1. Ability to install Smarty Template Engine

Smarty plug-in gives the ability to download the latest framework version from the original site and install it to the necessary folder using wizard.

2. Setup Smarty parsing mode

If you want to work with .html files in Smarty IDE (Smarty editor) mode you should set "HTML+Smarty" parsing mode.

For .tpl files Smarty parsing mode is applied automatically.

3. Code highlighting

That feature means Smarty syntax coloring.

4. Intelligent autocomplete

Intelligent autocomplete feature enables you to write code faster. Pop-up completion list includes Smarty variables, variables assigned from PHP

and functions

Completion list is called automatically in necessary area of Smarty code.

5. Context and Dynamic Help

You can quickly obtain necessary information about Smarty syntax using these features.

To get help topics using Context Help:

Place the pointer on element you want to review help topic for and press F1 button

By default CodeLobster IDE searches for proper help information on https://www.smarty.net/ site.
You can select Local Help file instead. To change site address:

Move to the Preferences menu (Tools|Preferences)
In the left grid click Context Help item and select JS
In the right grid select necessary value from the Location dropdown list and press OK

You can also select proper language here.

The Dynamic Help window displays links to help topics for an element the pointer is placed on.
By default CodeLobster IDE conducts search to https://www.smarty.net/ site.

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