Windows paths parsed wrong?

[flexjoly]

Hi,

Risking a stupid question, but i will give it a try....

I am trying to set the dirs for templates, compile etc. with smarty(3.1.30), php 7 (7.0.10), on xampp on windows10.

I have some dirs like:
D:\development\someproject\cache\templates_c
D:\development\core\templates

When setting these dirs and testing the smarty-install it says:

Testing template directory...
FAILED: D:\development\someproject\public/D:/development/core/templates/ does not exist.
Testing compile directory...
FAILED: D:\development\someproject\public/D:/development/someproject/cache/templates_c/ does not exist.

I found Smarty->_realpath() using getcwd() to find the current-directy. That explains why it give the /public. ($parts['root'] is empty)
It does not recognize the absolute windows-path it seems.

Am i doing something wrong? Or is this an issue in _realpath()?

(minor question: it is adviced to setup the dirs above the public-root (httdocs). So why is smarty trying to find the relative paths inside the public-root? )

I searched a lot, before asking. But could not find a similar question or answer so far.
I hope someone can help or fix this.

Greetz, flexjoly

[uwetews]

Have you defined as constant DS = '/' ?
Smarty defines DS as shortcut for DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR.
But if it is defined to something else before it will fail like this.
So it was not a good idea to use the DS shortcut in _realpath()
I will change it do use DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR;

[flexjoly]

Ah, yes i have ;)

[flexjoly]

When using DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR in _realpath()
the problem is fixed indeed!! :-)

Have you seen my second question/remark? Why is smarty trying to find the dirs inside the public-root?

[uwetews]

The fix is now in the master branch.
I replaced DS by a Smarty property as I need to redefine it in the PHPunit tests.

The failure occurred as I did first normalized the separators to DS which in your case was not DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR. This caused that D:/ was not detected as root as it was not expected.