smarty assign string concat

The way you are doing it is call the "short form" of assign, you just need to use the correct quoting mechanism: {$yes_src="`$const1`yes`$const2`"} Use assign: {assign var="yes_src" val="`$const1`yes`$const2`"} Use cat: {$const1|cat:"yes"} {$const2} You can also simply put the variables next to one another without assigning it to a variable:

1 Answer Sorted by: 12 The error you describe cannot be caused by the given code. I assume you are trying to build a string "de.admin.canEditMyClass" to use as a variable {$builtString.foo}. That's where the error occurs, because smarty does not magically convert your string to a variable reference. If you're using Smarty2:

To access {assign} variables from a php script use getTemplateVars () . Here's the template that creates the variable $foo . {assign var="foo" value="Smarty"} The template variables are only available after/during template execution as in the following script.

A note If you find yourself using assign more than rarely, you might have a misconception about the ideas of separating logic from presentation. Usually, concatenation and other variable work would be accomplished in PHP before the template is ever involved.

The fact that it is also much easier to concatenate strings in PHP suggests (from a pragmatic perspective) that it is a better way to do it anyhow. Generally, the most complicated logic I have in my smarty code is iteration through arrays.

smarty concatinate variables - posted in Hints & Modifications: Hello all, I need a lttle advice re: joining two string variables together in a .tpl file. Ive tried everything and researched on the googles... but advice so far has all failed to work. Example I just want to join two variables together with a space in between ... Eg. variable1 = "one" variable2 = "two" {assign var="variable3 ...

In Smarty template engine, you can combine two strings by using the concatenation operator, which is represented by a dot (. Here's an example of how you can combine two strings in Smarty: 1

A note If you find yourself using assign more than rarely, you might have a misconception about the ideas of separating logic from presentation. Usually, concatenation and other variable work would be accomplished in PHP before the template is ever involved.