Smarty FAQ

This is the product of many hours seeing the same questions coming up over and over again in #smarty. If somebody on #smarty refers you here, you ought to be ashamed of yourself for not doing your share of RTFM ;-P

Q: I $smarty->assign()ed an object into a Smarty template like this:

$smarty->assign('user',$user);

, but when I try to access it like this:

{assign var='name' value="{$user->name}"}

, it gives me a strange error instead of doing the assignment. What am I doing wrong?

A: You need to use the right syntax if you expect Smarty to understand you:

{assign var='name' value=$user->name}

Q: I want to do something like this:

{$a.($b.$c)}

where $a and $b are arrays, and $c is an index into $b; it isn't working. What's wrong?

A: You'll want to use PHP array syntax, there:

{$a.$b[$c]}

Q: How do I access a template variable from inside a {php} block?

A: You'll want to access the $smarty->_tpl_vars array, but as brakkvatn points out, $this is the Smarty object when you're inside a template:

{php}echo $this->_tpl_vars['my_variable'];{/php}

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