title: Smarty permissions problems
body: <p>Smarty is complaining about permissions. I've written a small mvc framework for a project I'm working on and I need to be able to render templates in each controller. I went ahead and followed the Smarty installation instructions, and set all of the configuration options in my "front controller", or the page that routes requests to the rest of the application. The testinstall function says everything is kosher, yet when I attempt to render templates in my controllers, I end up with this.</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>Warning: mkdir(): Permission denied in
    /var/www/HRTRL/includes/CallLog/lib/Smarty/libs/sysplugins/smarty_internal_write_file.php
    on line 28 Warning:
    rename(/tmp/wrt6piczo,./templates_c/73b1662b4c376f493278f9873564df03430a0b43.file.poopy.tpl.php):
    No such file or directory in
    /var/www/HRTRL/includes/CallLog/lib/Smarty/libs/sysplugins/smarty_internal_write_file.php
    on line 48 Warning: chmod(): No such
    file or directory in
    /var/www/HRTRL/includes/CallLog/lib/Smarty/libs/sysplugins/smarty_internal_write_file.php
    on line 50 Warning:
    include(./templates_c/73b1662b4c376f493278f9873564df03430a0b43.file.poopy.tpl.php):
    failed to open stream: No such file or
    directory in
    /var/www/HRTRL/includes/CallLog/lib/Smarty/libs/sysplugins/smarty_internal_template.php
    on line 423 Warning: include(): Failed
    opening
    './templates_c/73b1662b4c376f493278f9873564df03430a0b43.file.poopy.tpl.php'
    for inclusion
    (include_path='.:/usr/share/php:/usr/share/pear')
    in
    /var/www/HRTRL/includes/CallLog/lib/Smarty/libs/sysplugins/smarty_internal_template.php
    on line 423</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>I have tested the rest of my framework independently and everything seems to work. My "front controller" routes requests properly to the correct controllers, and I seem to be able to render regular HTML just fine. </p>
  
  <p>Additionally, I have chmodded all of the Smarty library folders as well as the other required directories to 777 just for the sake of testing. I'm still receiving the same permissions errors.</p>
  
  <p><em><strong>EDIT</em></strong></p>
  
  <p>These are the settings I've used for all the required smarty folders.</p>
  
  <pre><code>$smarty-&gt;setTemplateDir('lib/smarty/templates');
  $smarty-&gt;setCompileDir('lib/smarty/templates_c');
  $smarty-&gt;setCacheDir('lib/smarty/cache');
  $smarty-&gt;setConfigDir('lib/smarty/configs');
  </code></pre>