assign() assign values to the templates Description voidassign mixedvar voidassign stringvarname mixedvar You can explicitly pass name/value pairs, or associative arrays containing the name/value pairs. assign() assign('Name', 'Fred'); $smarty->assign('Address', $address); // passing an associative array $smarty->assign(array('city' => 'Lincoln', 'state' => 'Nebraska')); // passing an array $myArray = array('no' => 10, 'label' => 'Peanuts'); $smarty->assign('foo',$myArray); // passing a row from a database (eg adodb) $sql = 'select id, name, email from contacts where contact ='.$id; $smarty->assign('contact', $db->getRow($sql)); ?> ]]> These are accessed in the template with To access more complex array assignments see {foreach} and {section} See also assign_by_ref(), get_template_vars(), clear_assign(), append() and {assign}