All pages are generated with Smarty Template Engine. You can download Smarty manual and read more about this powerful engine from Smarty Official Page.

Smarty is very flexible and fast engine - it's built in very smart way and it's really fast.

The main idea is to divide php code from html tags so site design can be changed fast and with no change of php files at all! This script works exactly this way - html is separate from php.

Templates can be edited through web control panel (accessible by admin). Main goal of each template is to show variables it gets from php script. In other words, Template is common pure html with some special "tags" used to show variables or to implement simple logic (yes, Smarty have control structures and some of them are used in the system).

• {$var} - to show variable assigned from php and named "var"
• {if} - to implement simple logic
• {foreach} - to parse array assigned from php script
• {include} - to include another Smarty (can be useful for headers, ads, menu etc to avoid duplicate data)

Please study Smarty Manual to learn more about special tags. Don't be afraid of it - manual contains special section 'Smarty for template designers' and you don't have to know php at all to design your own smarty template. If you are well in learning by example then you can study our templates - they are simple but use power of Smarty.

So, coming back to our script. Each page is shown with some template. Each template includes (using {include} command) header.tpl and footer.tpl - common header and footer. You can create another header and footer and use both of them just specify what file to include. Currently all templates use same header and footer.

• $self - contain base name of current file. No need to use it
• $CFG - array of all settings you manage on "Site settings nams"
• $LNG - array of all messages in current language
• $MSG - usually an error message generated or message to user

All other variables are template specific. Now we can divide all templates in 3 classes and 1 separate template:

• Subtemplates (like header, footer or _top_level_cats)
• Individual templates - they are used with one page only (index, newsarchive etc)
• Error template - it simply includes header and footer, header does show {$MSG} variable. Used for example when news with invalid ID is called.

Subtemplates are already described below and you can create your own, and definitely you should to make your site look more individual.

Individual templates are (list of templates and list of variables assigned to each shown):

• Index page (index.tpl)
• {$news} - array with top news (amount can be changed in settings)
• {$pages} - array with links to previous and next page
• News archive (archive.tpl)
• {$y_expanded},{$years},{$m_expanded},{$months},{$news} - all archive is built on these parameters

All other templates can exist in more than 1 instance. It means, you can create several news templates and assign specific template for special news. The common templates are news templates. You can assign to news any template which name starts with 'news_'.

News template receive such data from phpscript:
• {$attachments} - array of news attachments
• {$links} - array of links
• {$news} - array with news itself

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