Laravel Smarty

Replace Blade with Smarty 5 as the default view engine in a Laravel application — view('welcome') renders welcome.tpl, with Blade still available as a fallback for any view that doesn't have a Smarty template.

<h1>Hello, {$name}!</h1>   {* auto-escaped, like Blade's {{ }} *}

Route::get('/', fn () => view('welcome', ['name' => 'World']));

Highlights

• Drop-in: registers ahead of Blade on the view finder; both engines coexist.
• Safe by default: {$var} output is HTML-escaped, and the built-in plugins escape user-coupled output the way Blade's directives do.
• Blade-parity plugins: {auth}, {can}, {feature}, {env}, {old}, {checked}, {route}, {vite}, |trans, |currency, and friends.
• Caching-correct: with Smarty's output cache on, everything request- or locale-coupled re-evaluates per render instead of being baked in.
• Sandboxable: two shipped security policies for admin-authored and user-submitted templates.
• Laravel-native errors: exceptions map back to the .tpl source line, view composers and Debugbar see every sub-template.

Where to go

New here?	Overview → Quick start
Setting up	Configuration, Artisan commands
Writing templates	Built-in plugins, Wrapper objects, Pagination
Extending	Custom plugins
Locking down	Security policy
Something's off	Troubleshooting
Contributing	Development

Requirements

PHP ^8.1 · Laravel 10 / 11 / 12 / 13 · smarty/smarty ^5.4

composer require vusys/laravel-smarty