Rendering to smarty with custom required/error templates producing smarty error

Ok, thanks to y'all helping me find my stupid stupid mistake from before, now I come to one that I really have no idea why its happening. I produce this warning, after outputting the smarty template: Warning: Smarty error: eval: missing 'var' parameter in f:\PHP\Smarty\libs\Smarty.class.php on line 1088 Now that I have the rules 100% working, I have the issue of displaying them from within the smarty template. I defined the custom templates after setting up the renderer, like so: $this->renderer->setRequiredTemplate( '{if $error} <font color="red">{$label}</font> {else} {$label} {if $required} <font color="red" size="1">*</font> {/if} {/if}' ); $this->renderer->setErrorTemplate( '{if $error} <font color="orange">{$error}</font><br /> {/if} {$html}' ); $this->form->setRequiredNote( *&nbsp; This field is mandatory'); (this of course, being a basic one, since I've had problems with it just wanted to get it to work first) Since this is my first time actually using quickform with smarty, I consulted the starter written by the linux consultancy. However, utilizing his demo code, this doesnt work. I thought it might be with the fact that its using generic {$variable} terms, and not actually referring to the smarty form variable... however, afte attempting to add the $form.variable change to it, it still would not produce anything but that warning. It also does not produce any label output on the form, only the elements.