Yet Another Smarty Thread

[eluser]MABUS[/eluser]
hey guys.I'm kinda new to smarty. I've used it with some project, but that one didn't have CI in it. Now, I'd like to ask where shall I put my .tpl files? inside the "views" folder? is it supposed to be named as "xxx.tpl" ???

Another thing, this tutorial shows how to make a call to your smarty library, but doesn't show what $data variable is? . I am used to just passing an array to a view file, and use the values of that as variables on the view file. But this time , since smarty is playing along, how do you suppose doing it using these methods discussed here? does that $data array contain an array ? if so, where do we put the values , or the output from that smarty function call?

and last question, is "call_by_pass_reference" really needed to get CI and smarty going together? atleast for this method