Naming Conventions Plugin files and functions must follow a very specific naming convention in order to be located by Smarty. plugin files must be named as follows:
type.name.php
Where type is one of these plugin types: function modifier block compiler prefilter postfilter outputfilter resource insert And name should be a valid identifier; letters, numbers, and underscores only, see php variables. Some examples: function.html_select_date.php, resource.db.php, modifier.spacify.php. plugin functions inside the PHP files must be named as follows:
smarty_type_name
The meanings of type and name are the same as above. An example modifier name foo would be function smarty_modifier_foo(). Smarty will output appropriate error messages if the plugin file it needs is not found, or if the file or the plugin function are named improperly.