This is the name of the default template directory. If you do
not supply a resource type when including files, they will be
found here. By default this is
./templates,
meaning that Smarty
will look for the
templates/ directory in
the same directory as the executing php script. $template_dir
can also be an array of directory paths: Smarty will traverse the
directories and stop on the first matching template found.
It is not recommended to put this directory under the web server document root.
If the directories known to $template_dir
are relative to directories known to the
include_path
you need to activate the
$use_include_path
option.
As of Smarty 3.1 the attribute $template_dir is no longer accessible directly. Use
getTemplateDir(),
setTemplateDir() and
addTemplateDir() instead.
See also
Template Resources,
$use_include_path,
getTemplateDir(),
setTemplateDir() and
addTemplateDir().