Question

I need to display {$user.unread} in this format in my *.tpl file without any for loop so that only the number 3 shows up.

my php files has $user = array('unread' => 3); what should my smarty assign and php array codes be?

I’m doing this to integrate design with smarty codes, without the need to connect up with the database. Hence, {$user.unread} has to be the format to call “3” or any number in the *.tpl file, but in the php file I can define a static array and call the smarty accordingly. I’m unsure of the syntax in the php file to define this static array and define the smarty assign.

Answer 1

You could just assign the array to the smarty variable. It should work the way you intended.

in php:

$user = array('unread' => 3);
$smarty->assign('user',$user)

in tpl:

{$user.unread}