Question

I need to inline some javascript code into the Smarty template files and these {ldelim} {rdelim} things are killing me. Is there a way to tell smarty to ignore the markup for a block and just output it as is? Something similar to CDATA blocks in the xml?

Just in case: here is how simple javascript looks now:

$(function() {ldelim}
        $( "#slides" ).accessNews({ldelim}
            speed :  "{$speed}",
            slideBy : 1
        {rdelim});    
{rdelim});

creepy heh?

Answer 1

Re your update: You can use {literal} .... insert content here {/literal} to turn off Smarty variable parsing for entire blocks.

Old answer: I like to change the default delimiter characters to something else for this exact reason. (As far as I know, that can be done for the whole project only though, so you would have to see whether it’s for you.)

For example to

<( $variablename )>

(just my personal favourite, use whatever suits you)

The variables to change are the rightDelimiter and leftDelimiter properties. Documentation

$smarty = new Smarty();
$smarty->left_delimiter =  '<(';
$smarty->right_delimiter = ')>';