YiiSmartyViewRenderer

Basic renderer for Yii and Smarty.

Requirements

Smarty 3 Yii 1.x Php >= 5.2

Clone the renderer and smarty

1.- Clone Smarty in your vendor directory. In mi proyect was in webroot/src/protected/vendors

webroot/src/protected/vendors/Smarty/...

2.- Clone the repository in your vendor directory. In my current proyect create a vendors directory in webroot/src/protected/vendors

webroot/src/protected/vendors/YiiSmartyViewRenderer/...

Config main.php

Install a viewRenderer application component

Reference: Yii 1.x Alternative Template Syntax

'components' => array(
    'viewRenderer'=>array(
                'class'=>'application.vendors.YiiSmartyViewRenderer.YiiSmartyViewRenderer',
    ),
    ...
)

Create the template

test.tpl for example in a partials directory views/partials

<?php
{$prop}
{Yii::app()->user->id}

Invoke the view template with render or renderPartial

renderPartial() for example in the a create view views/create.php

Note: this create.php is a yii view not a smarty tpl, that is possible!!! :)

<!--views/create.php-->
<div class="panel-body">
<?php $this->renderPartial('partials/test', compact('prop'));?>
</div>

Yii 1.x work with php 5 and Smarty 3 work from php 5.2 to 7, so, for this reason, smarty is a good option for yii 1.x.

I hoppe this work for you. :)