I'm using the 1.8.* installation for all parts and I really want to use the '.tpl' extension for my Smarty templates. It looks like the parser config file is not being read properly?
I have to forge the views with '.smarty', I have to name the templates with '.smarty' and I have to call the extension in parser config 'smarty' to get it to work at all.
According to the following post this is the accepted solution, but my IDE doesn't understand '.smarty' files...
The parser configuration requires a unique expension for every parser, and since .tpl was already used, we have to come up with another default for smarty.
However, nobody is stopping you from overriding the config in your app. This should do it: