smarty not working in codeigniter

Question

I installed Smarty in Codeigniter and it's not really working. Here is what I did:

1. I followed this instructions:

   http://sunwebexpert.com/books/detail/PHP/integrating-smarty-and-codeigniter.html

But I also put another file in the library: parser.php which is a library to do parsing (I've used it before with smarty and worked well)

2. the on Codeigniter's autoload.php wrote this:

   $autoload['libraries'] = array('parser','smarty');
   

3. On main controller I wrote this function to test:

   public function index()
   {
     $this->data['d'] = 2;
     $this->parser->parse('base/test.tpl', $this->data);
   }
   

but the result is no error display and I see the variable 'd' as it is wrote in the template:

{$d}

So I have two questions:

1. Why can't I see the variable value if I installed smarty as I did before in other projects?

2. How can I enable to see errors if there are?

Answer 1

The problem is that in codeigniter, there is a built-in library called Parser. That's why this may cause conflict with your library name. Try to rename your library name or use built-in library.

Here is how to display error on codeigniter.

Hope it will be useful for you.