Installing plugins not on PEAR

[donkeystalk]

Evening all,
Been trying to install Smarty, and it doesn't really seem like this is possible using PEAR. So, I got SSH access, and SSH'd then proceeded to follow the guide on Smarty's website on how to install it. Hostgator didn't seem to like me trying to mkdir in usr/local/lib/php and even told me it was going to be reported, yikes...guess I missed that in the agreement, oh well. My question is how do I install this then? I have a feeling it's very obvious and will probably kick myself once I know how to do it.

Thanks in advance!

[HalbrookTech]

Originally Posted by donkeystalk

Hostgator didn't seem to like me trying to mkdir in usr/local/lib/php and even told me it was going to be reported, yikes...guess I missed that in the agreement, oh well. My question is how do I install this then? I have a feeling it's very obvious and will probably kick myself once I know how to do it.

Yeah, you can't do anything outside the /home/username directory, that's normal for anyone on anything other than a dedicated. You can install it where ever you want under your account, and just set it's location whereever you need it to be set. I only work with smarty as a component of Zikula, and it resides in the web root somewhere, don't recall where, and as I say, I've never worked with it directly.

[donkeystalk]

Thanks for the prompt reply!

Will look into it, from reading the install guide, it seemed like it needed to have access to php lib, but guess not!

[HalbrookTech]

nope, just put it in, say /home/username/smarty/ and in your php require /home/username/smarty/whatever_the_include_file_is

[donkeystalk]

Thanks a lot for the help!

Will look into this and see if I can get it working =D

[donkeystalk]

Got it working!

Pretty easy to set up actually, now that I understand it =D