Making additional variables available to your templates
Last modified: June 22, 2006 - 06:59
As the Smarty Theme Engine is very closely ported from phptemplate most solutions are of the same nature.
For simple introduction of additional variables you implement a _smarty_variables function in the smartytemplate.php file within your theme directory (see http://drupal.org/node/70247 : smartytemplate.php: Your theme's powerhouse)
For example:
If your theme were box_grey_smarty:
Adding a smartytemplate.php file at themes/box_grey_smarty/smartytemplate.php with content of (file needs php tags):
<?php
function _smarty_variables($hook, $variables) {
switch($hook) {
case 'comment' :
$variables['newvar'] = 'new variable';
$variables['title'] = 'new title';
break;
}
return $variables;
}
?>Then within your comment.tpl you could then write New Variable: {$newvar} to print 'new variable'.
See the phptemplate page on template variable addition for more examples, just remember to replace _phptemplate_variables with _smarty_variables.