FastTemplate Instantiate Question

[Anon]

I have been running my new site on my local machine with full success and am having a problem with FastTemplate when I am going live. I get the following error:

Cannot instantiate non-existent class: fasttemplate in ...

I think this is telling me it can not find the class. I am on a server shared by others and don't have access to the php.ini file so I put the site address in my includes. Here is the first few lines that I can't understand the problem.

include "http://cfbdatawarehouse.com/include_files/class.FastTemplate.php";

$tpl = new FastTemplate("http://cfbdatawarehouse.com/include_files/");

$tpl->define(array(
"toplevel" => "conference/conf_champs_toplevel.htm",
"table" => "conference/conf_champs_table.htm",
"rows" => "conference/conf_champs_rows.htm"
));

Can anyone see a problem?

David

[gerardg]

oh man put ft out to pasture and use smarty!

[Anon]

It is my intent (as a newbie) to get FastTemplate working and then check the performance of it verses others. I think my problem lies with not having access to the php.ini files because I am hosting on a server shared by others. I don't see why the absolute path "http://cfbdatawarehouse.com/include_files/" works for all my include files except for FastTemplate.

Can someone clue me in?

David

[gerardg]

Well, try using relative paths instead of whole URLs:

include('include_files/class.fasttemplate.php');

Using a URL (http://) causes the include file to be fetched from a web server. In this case there would be nothing since fasttemplate doesn't print anything if it's called as a web page.

If you learn fasttemplate now, you'll REALLY appreciate how much better smarty is later ;-).