Creating Templates

Now you need to write a simple Smarty template file to test whether everything is working, so type in Example 12-2 and save it in a file named index.tpl in the temp/smarty/templates directory you created earlier.

Example 12-2. The index.tpl template file
<html>
    <head>
        <title>{$title}</title>
    </head>
    <body>
        This is a Smarty Test
    </body>
</html>

As you can see, this is simply an HTML file with a .tpl file extension. But note the use of the Smarty variable {$title} on the third line. This is the same variable that was defined in Example 12-1. Smarty will substitute the value of the variable instead of the text in Example 12-2, because of the surrounding curly braces {} (see Figure 12-1).

The output from index.tpl in
Figure 12-1. The output from index.tpl in Example 12-2

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