How to use Smarty with CakePHP 3.0

This is a tutorial for installing Smarty to CakePHP 3.0.

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Steps

1. Download the SmartyView

from here: https://github.com/yukikikuchi/cakephp3-smartyview
Save SmartyView as app/src/View/SmartyView.php

2. Download the smarty template engine

http://smarty.php.net/download.php
Extract it to app/vendor/smarty

3. Include in your controller

(in AppController.php to do it app-wide)

AppController.php

class AppController extends Controller {
    public $viewClass = 'App\View\SmartyView';
}

4. Create the layout file

Create a file app/src/Template/Layout/default.tpl and paste in that file:

default.tpl

{$this->fetch('content')}