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Installing Smarty is really quite simple on certain distributions.

Debian/Ubuntu and derivatives

Simple as running apt-get:

and Bob's your uncle.

The above command puts the smarty installation in one of the standard php library include paths, so you can include it in your PHP code with:

OS/X

It's a little more difficult to do on OS/X, since there are a few different possibilities, depending on how and where you've installed PHP.

You can always install Smarty directly yourself, which is simply a matter of downloading the files from http://www.smarty.net/download -- you probably want the latest stable release.

Unpack the .zip file someplace temporarily (I often just do this in my ~/Downloads directory). Then, move the files from the libs directory to an appropriate place on your PHP include path. You can place them directly in a directory on the include path, or you can do like the Debian install does and put them in a sub-directory called "smarty".

If you've installed the Smarty libraries directly on the include path, then the line to include it in your application is:

If you've installed Smarty in a sub-directory on your include path, then:

If you've installed Smarty someplace else entirely, you will need to do 2 things:

1. Define the constant SMARTY_DIR to point to the absolute path where Smarty lives.
2. Use the SMARTY_DIR define in your require_once directive:

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