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Smilyan Pavlov

Designer & web strategy consultant in sheffield, uk, smarty – how to assign a variable into a variable in the template.

Recently I needed to assign several variables into one smarty variable inside the template.

Here is the basic rules for the example:

• You have a text that says “Your registration expires in # days”;
• You want The text “in # days” to change to “today” if the # days is 0.

Here’s a way you can do this with smarty variables inside the template (whether you should do this in the template is not a discussion for this post).

The key here is that when you want to include a variable as part of the value of another variable you need to use value=” $in_days “ . Notice the  ` before and after the variable name inside the double quotes. You can use this method to include variables inside value statements anywhere in smarty templates and make modifications of those included variables.

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Unable to assign global scope variables #194

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Template variables start with the $dollar sign. They can contain numbers, letters and underscores, much like a PHP variable . You can reference arrays by index numerically or non-numerically. Also reference object properties and methods.

Config file variables are an exception to the \$dollar syntax and are instead referenced with surrounding #hashmarks#, or via the $smarty.config variable.

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Request variables such as $_GET , $_SESSION , etc are available via the reserved $smarty variable.

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Global Smarty Variables used in Prestashop

By uddhava June 1, 2010 in Core developers

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On my search for the GLOBALS Smarty variables in Prestashop i stumbled upon this gem :

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brandonc503

could you tell me where $base_dir is set at so that i can change all http: to https: thanks

Most variables get set by the config files in the /config folder

These are all set in /init.php

• 11 months later...

Thx for the info. But the list seems to be a bit outdated. logged is deprecated, is there any substitute for this? TIA

• 1 month later...

Talking of this subject, what about the order note comment field from checkout? In the PrestaShop 1.4.2.5 release it cheekily appears as a global Smarty $oldMessage on the page where you enter the note, and then.. it is gone when you click Next! (On the page after that in checkout the gift wrap message is put into $cart>-gift_message .. But where is the order note?!)

• 4 months later...

Up to date globals are listed on: http://doc.prestashop.com/display/PS14/Creating+a+PrestaShop+module

I have a solution to find the current page.

{assign var='pageName' value=$smarty.server.PHP_SELF}

{$pageName}

the variable 'pageName' print its name with absolute path. then you need to subtr it.

Can i create a global variable in a module ?

I want to use this variable in every tpl file in my theme.

• 1 year later...

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On my search for the GLOBALS Smarty variables in Prestashop i stumbled upon this gem : ( Thx to Matt : http://www.sandfight...shop-uncovered/ )   01 $base_dir { root folder of your shop } 02 $base_dir_ssl { root folder of your shop using HTTPS protocol } 03 $content_dir { root folder of your shop depending on the SSL settings } 04 $img_ps_dir { root folder containing images "/img/" } 05 $img_dir { images folder in your current theme directory } 06 $css_dir { css folder inside the current theme folder } 07 $js_dir { JavaScript inside the theme folder } 08 $tpl_dir { theme root folder } 09 $modules_dir { modules root folder } 10 $mail_dir { mail templates root folder } 11 $lang_iso { current language ISO code } 12 $come_from { previous page address [absolute] } 13 $shop_name { your specified shop name } 14 $cart_qties { total number of products in the cart } 15 $cart { shopping cart contents } 16 $currencies { pulls available currencies } 17 $id_currency_cookie { selected currency id [cookie dependent] } 18 $currency { active currency } 19 $cookie { active cookie } 20 $languages { grabs available languages } 21 $logged { checks whether users is logged in } 22 $page_name { current page's name } 23 $customerName { customer name [session dependent] } 24 $priceDisplay { current price display settings [currency dependent] }   I have no idea if these are all working. I was looking for a global variable that has the URL of the current page. Anybody knows that ?

Thanks for the list... I have also found out that $module_name works in v1.4.9.0 and im using it in my template to add an active class to the navigation like so...

@MyWebsiteSpot

well, it's a bit old thread with not all global variables used in 1.5.x version

• 5 months later...

How did Prestashop got the URL for the Media-Server (ccc) ? 

Some Modules seems not to implement the right Smarty-Variable for that.

For example Homeslider & advertising_block & Product-Highlight on startpage still use default-domainname for the images.

And is there a place to find all the current global variables used in 1.5 but mostly important in 1.6?

year ago i create smarty global variable list for prestashop 1.5

you can use all of them in prestashop 1.6

Thanks Vekia, but that list contains {$base_dir} which does not work under 1.6

I've found this to be the solution:

__PS_BASE_URI__ is a constant defined in prestashop and those can be access through Smarty's {$smarty.const...} tag.

So, use {$smarty.const.__PS_BASE_URI__} en voilá.

please go through  http://blog.gofenice.com/prestashop/global-smarty-variables-used-in-prestashop/  for a list available smarty variables in prestashop.

• 3 months later...

you should be able to accomplish your task/goal by going to backoffice preferences/general and setting "Force the SSL on all pages" to YES

• 7 months later...

creation-handicap

is there a way i can get the search value? as in  http://www.creation-handicap.ch/shop/suche?tag=Weihnachtskarten i want to get the value "weihnachten"

i got it! it's 

for searching for tags and

for default searching

Well... I sure cannot find global smarty variables at that link - am I missing something?

• 2 years later...

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On 4/25/2019 at 9:36 AM, [email protected] said: Can any one can say how can i active link on top horizontal menu in internal pages.   Suppose about us in there are two cms pages but i want about us remain active when click on internal pages of about. please give any solution. Thanks  Sumant kumar

how can i get url of - Road to the category

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Get smarty variable into JavaScript

I want to make a simple snippet. I would like to console.log a smarty variable. I tried :

And in my JavaScript

It give me a blank page and nothing in the console log. In log I get

Smarty Error: Syntax error in template "file:/usr/share/nginx/html/page.tpl" on line 367 "{/literal}{$smarty.lbrace}{literal}" $smarty.lbrace is not defined

I also tried

It output {$somevar}

console.log return blank

• The second won't work because it's considering {$somevar} as a literal too, that's why you need to stop the literal and restart it. The first one not working is weird tho. Could you add the full hierarchy and if you have anything else in your file? –  Alexandre Elshobokshy Commented Feb 20, 2019 at 13:03
• This code is in the same file. I'm using it on whmcs –  executable Commented Feb 20, 2019 at 13:04
• 1 I fixed, it was a typo error, sorry about that ! But I still cannot log new_var –  executable Commented Feb 20, 2019 at 13:09
• If you try to console.log("string test") does it show the result? –  Alexandre Elshobokshy Commented Feb 20, 2019 at 13:09
• @Islam Yes I can output in console.log. It look like the new_var is empty but I don't know why –  executable Commented Feb 20, 2019 at 13:10

First of all, declare your smarty variable :

And, use it in your .tpl file who will contains your JavaScript in < script> tag :

if you want to use a value from the PHP, you assign it to the smarty object, call the view, and display it with the same method.

• He's not looking to assign a smarty object, he's looking to use a PHP assigned variable inside smarty. I'm not sure you really understood the question. –  Alexandre Elshobokshy Commented Feb 20, 2019 at 15:14

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