{$smarty} reserved variable The PHP reserved {$smarty} variable can be used to access several enviroment and request variables. The full list of them follows. Request variables The request variables such as $_GET, $_POST, $_COOKIE, $_SERVER, $_ENV and $_SESSION (see $request_vars_order and $request_use_auto_globals) can be accessed as demonstrated in the examples below: Displaying request variables For historical reasons {$SCRIPT_NAME} can be accessed directly, although {$smarty.server.SCRIPT_NAME} is the proposed way to access this value. click me click me ]]> {$smarty.now} The current timestamp can be accessed with {$smarty.now}. The value reflects the number of seconds passed since the so-called Epoch on January 1, 1970, and can be passed directly to the date_format modifier for display. Note that time() is called on each invocation; eg a script that takes three seconds to execute with a call to $smarty.now at start and end will show the three second difference. {$smarty.const} You can access PHP constant values directly. See also smarty constants. ]]> Output the constant in a template with {$smarty.capture} Template output captured via the built-in {capture}..{/capture} function can be accessed using the {$smarty.capture} variable. See the {capture} page for more information. {$smarty.config} {$smarty.config} variable can be used to refer to loaded config variables. {$smarty.config.foo} is a synonym for {#foo#}. See the {config_load} page for more info. {$smarty.section}, {$smarty.foreach} The {$smarty.section} and {$smarty.foreach} variables can be used to refer to {section} and {foreach} loop properties respectfully. These have some very useful values such as .first, .index, etc. {$smarty.template} Returns the name of the current template being processed. The following example shows the container.tpl and the included banner.tpl with {$smarty.template} within both. Main container is {$smarty.template} {include file='banner.tpl'} ]]> will output Main page is container.tpl banner.tpl ]]> {$smarty.version} Returns the version of Smarty the template was compiled with. Powered by Smarty {$smarty.version} ]]> {$smarty.ldelim}, {$smarty.rdelim} These variables are used for printing the left-delimiter and right-delimiter value literally, the same as {ldelim},{rdelim}. See also assigned variables and config variables