New Smarty Extension for Dreamweaver

May 12th, 2006

I recently packaged a Smarty template extension for Dreamweaver which allows web designers who are working with Smarty templates to work on templates using Dreamweaver’s Design View. You can download the extension here. To install the extension, simply use the Macromedia Extension Manager. I offer no support or warranties for this extension, but welcome feedback about it.

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  • 1. Jauhari  |  July 12th, 2006 at 9:17 pm

    I try. This will be helpfull for me. Thanks u

  • 2. Emanuele  |  August 1st, 2006 at 6:54 am

    It’s so goood!!! :)

    Thanks a lot!

  • 3. Joe  |  August 1st, 2006 at 9:14 pm

    EXCELLENT!

    I thought Dreamweaver had finally come up with a Smarty solution, then I realized I installed your extension!

  • 4. deekay  |  August 22nd, 2006 at 1:58 pm

    thank you, thank you, thank you!!!!

  • 5. Shim  |  September 20th, 2006 at 2:06 am

    I like how it tidies the code but wouldn’t it be more useful if it didn’t replace {$var} instances?

    Usually these are precisely the things that you actually want to see styled in the design view and not replaced with an icon.

  • 6. David Kern  |  September 24th, 2006 at 9:06 pm

    Question: will this work on Dreamweaver MX 6.1 and/or Dreamweaver 8? In DW 8 is seems to not work, unless I am missing something.

  • 7. Marc  |  October 26th, 2006 at 2:13 pm

    Nice tool, thanks a million.

  • 8. Jesse-Lee Stringer  |  October 28th, 2006 at 1:38 am

    Appreiciate the time and effort that you’ve taken to design the extention. I can see a few nights full of sleep (saving me hours from cs-cart mods ) .

    Jesse-Lee Stringer

  • 9. Matthew  |  October 28th, 2006 at 2:45 am

    Havn’t tried this out just yet however seems to be just what I was looking for. Thanks Scott :-D

  • 10. Vitaliy  |  November 26th, 2006 at 9:26 am

    Thank you man! EXCELLENT tool!

  • 11. hsu  |  December 4th, 2006 at 9:20 pm

    thanks, this is what i’m looking for, and saving many people times and effort.

    great

  • 12. Kenny  |  January 25th, 2007 at 1:44 pm

    Thank you so much for this, its awesome!

  • 13. Jesse  |  January 31st, 2007 at 11:18 pm

    Thanks for the plugin,
    It’s saved me a lot of time

  • 14. RealEstateSchool  |  February 7th, 2007 at 12:31 pm

    This doesn’t seem to translate include file paths properly, or perhaps all my include paths need to be relative to the currnet .tpl file. It would be awesome if there was a way to set a preference for the template directory so this extension would translate file includes properly when you are working on an application that defines its own template directory. In most of the apps I’ve worked on, template includes are never relative to the current document, but instead use the template directory defined in the $smarty object at runtime. Anyway, thanks for your efforts.

  • 15. John  |  February 23rd, 2007 at 10:25 am

    This extension made my day, week and more. Thanks for doing all the leg work on this. What an awesome extension!!

  • 16. m.ozan hazer  |  March 22nd, 2007 at 3:26 am

    Thanks for the extension…
    There are some problems with DW8 I’d like to report:

    1. HTML code is not colored, html completion is not working etc. etc.

    2. When I double click on a file in the “files” tab, it says: “Can’t find a valid editor for this extension”. Right click on file -> Open With/Dreamweaver works.

    3. Save as dialog shows html files, not tpl files.

  • 17. Vinicius  |  April 11th, 2007 at 10:46 am

    Can this extension handle foreach ???/ tksss

  • 18. David Herring  |  November 17th, 2007 at 4:18 pm

    Can you change the delimiters to be {{ and }} rather than the default { } ? I need to do this as have smarty variables being used within javascript sections of code.

    thx dave

  • 19. David Herring  |  November 24th, 2007 at 12:09 am

    Have decided to use standard delimiters for smarty { } so will use {ldelim} and {rdelim} for javascript code in template files.

    My next question now is does anyone know how to dynamically set smarty variables in dreamweaver ? I.E set {$name} to be ‘David’ when looking at template files in dreamweaver ?

    thanks dave

  • 20. tira  |  December 3rd, 2007 at 7:11 pm

    Thank you sooooo much!
    I’ve been searching for something like this for weeks.

  • 21. chen  |  December 17th, 2007 at 2:58 am

    Thank you very much!

  • 22. hasta siemre  |  December 26th, 2007 at 3:57 am

    excellent tool, thanks for thousand time

  • 23. Karen  |  January 4th, 2008 at 10:41 pm

    Thanks SO much. You’ve helped me out tremendously!!

  • 24. Gadi  |  February 18th, 2008 at 12:39 am

    Greetings,
    I was wondering if there was any support for subdirectory templates? Since my site sets a base directory for Smarty templates when I I include “admin/footer.tpl” inside “admin/index.tpl” I get a file not found (not 100% sure why), but I am assuming that it has to do with the way my smarty template dir is set. Is there any way to change how this is supported?

    Thanks!

    Gadi

  • 25. Gadi  |  February 23rd, 2008 at 3:45 pm

    Hi,
    I am having the same issue as RealEstateSchool and was wondering if you had any intentions of further developing this extension. If not, might it be possible to share the source so others could continue to improve upon your original code. I use smarty often in complex enough setups that this feature would be well worth my time to develop.

    Otherwise, the extension works great, and am very grateful you took the time to develop it.

    Thanks!

  • 26. Cazare Brasov  |  May 1st, 2008 at 4:40 pm

    I tried the extention on dreamweaver 8, but have not tried it on Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 (9).

    Will this work on Dreamweaver CS3 ?

  • 27. scott  |  May 5th, 2008 at 12:19 am

    Yes, this extension does work in CS3

  • 28. Andy  |  May 8th, 2008 at 8:35 am

    Making this great extension Open-Source would be great :)

    Big thanks anyway…
    Andy

  • 29. Paul  |  June 15th, 2008 at 4:52 am

    Scott, thank you!!!! I need to say that again, SCOTT THANK YOU!!! You have really helped me out here. Thank you for all the work involved - always appreciated for the online world. YOU ARE A SITE SAVER!!!!

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