[documentation] [Documentation bug] Obsolete instructions in Installing Smarty Theme Engine

[Gary Feldman]

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 Project:      Documentation
 Version:      <none>
 Component:    User Guide
 Category:     bug reports
 Priority:     normal
 Assigned to:  Anonymous
 Reported by:  Gary Feldman
 Updated by:   Gary Feldman
 Status:       active

The Installing Smarty theme engine [1] page has a bad, obsolete link. 
It downloads an empty file, and it's no longer the case that the Smarty
engine is packaged separately.


Here's a suggested rewrite:


To use Smarty-based Drupal themes such as box_cleanslate_smarty,
bluemarine_smarty, etc., the Smarty theme engine must be installed. 
Here's are the steps:



* Go to the Smarty project page [2] and look for the the /preferred/
links, halfway down the page.  These are complete packages, but they're
not hosted on the Drupal.org site.  (If you prefer to download only from
Drupal.org, you'll have to get and install the underlying Smarty engine
separately.)
* Download the version of the package appropriate to your version of
Drupal into a temporary location.
* Extract the package into the themes/engines directory, so that the
path looks like /drupal_base//themes/engines/smarty/....
* Check, and if necessary change the permissions on the templates_c
directory, as documented at the 'templates_c' Directory Permissions
page.
* Download a Smarty-based theme from the Themes [3] page.  The Smarty
engine package that you've just installed doesn't contain a sample
theme, and hence you can't test it without first downloading or
creating a theme.

You should now be ready to enable, configure, and use Smarty-based
themes.
[1] http://drupal.org/node/27566
[2] http://drupal.org/project/smarty
[3] http://drupal.org/project/Themes




Gary Feldman