From 4bf41b8e5db7c933f1b8cd3738c32a375866d4b5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Fabrixxm <fabrix.xm@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 8 May 2013 03:26:20 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] check if view/smarty3 folder is writable by webserver

---
 include/friendica_smarty.php | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/friendica_smarty.php b/include/friendica_smarty.php
index 1326b0aca6..021feea2ac 100644
--- a/include/friendica_smarty.php
+++ b/include/friendica_smarty.php
@@ -45,6 +45,13 @@ class FriendicaSmarty extends Smarty {
 
 class FriendicaSmartyEngine implements ITemplateEngine {
 	static $name ="smarty3";
+   	
+    public function __construct(){
+		if(!is_writable('view/smarty3/')){
+			echo "<b>ERROR:</b> folder <tt>view/tpl/smarty3/</tt> must be writable by webserver."; killme();
+		}
+	} 
+    
 	// ITemplateEngine interface
 	public function replace_macros($s, $r) {
 		$template = '';