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How Plugins Work {#plugins.howto}
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Plugins are always loaded on demand. Only the specific modifiers,
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functions, resources, etc invoked in the templates scripts will be
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loaded. Moreover, each plugin is loaded only once, even if you have
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several different instances of Smarty running within the same request.
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Pre/postfilters and output filters are a bit of a special case. Since
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they are not mentioned in the templates, they must be registered or
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loaded explicitly via API functions before the template is processed.
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The order in which multiple filters of the same type are executed
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depends on the order in which they are registered or loaded.
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The [plugins directory](#variable.plugins.dir) can be a string
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containing a path or an array containing multiple paths. To install a
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plugin, simply place it in one of the directories and Smarty will use it
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automatically.
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