Smarty View class and helpers plugin for CakePHP 2.0 and later. Works with Smarty version 2.6 and 3.1 both.

In plugin directory of your app:

git git://github.com/news2u/cakephp-smartyview.git SmartyView

Install Smarty to Vendor directory.

Set $viewClass in AppController class;

class AppController extends Controller {   

    ...      

    public $viewClass = 'SmartyView.Smarty';
    public $helpers = array(
        'SmartyView.SmartyHtml', 
        'SmartyView.SmartyForm',
        'SmartyView.SmartySession',
        'SmartyView.SmartyJavascript', 
        'Html', 'Session'
    );

    ...
}

And put Smarty Template in View directory instead of .ctp file.

SmartyView original code are written by tclineks and icedcheese:

• http://bakery.cakephp.org/articles/tclineks/2006/10/27/how-to-use-smarty-with-cake-smartyview
• http://bakery.cakephp.org/articles/icedcheese/2008/01/14/smarty-view-for-1-2

Original Helpers are also written by tclineks

• http://bakery.cakephp.org/articles/view/138 (currentry page not found)