Miscellany

index.php:

<?php
require_once('Smarty.class.php');

$smarty = new Smarty();

$smarty->template_dir = 'templates/';
$smarty->compile_dir = 'templates_c/';
$smarty->config_dir = 'configs/';
$smarty->cache_dir = 'cache/';

$smarty->display('index.tpl');
?>

templates/index.tpl:

{* Smarty *}
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
 <head>
  <title>Test smarty</title>
  </head>
 <body>
  <h1>Test Smarty</h1>
 </body>
</html>