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This function is useful for replacing null or zero length strings. </P ></BLOCKQUOTE ></DIV > </P ><DIV CLASS="informaltable" ><A NAME="AEN905" ></A ><P ></P ><TABLE BORDER="1" CLASS="CALSTABLE" ><THEAD ><TR ><TH WIDTH="20%" ALIGN="CENTER" VALIGN="MIDDLE" >Parameter Position</TH ><TH WIDTH="20%" ALIGN="CENTER" VALIGN="MIDDLE" >Type</TH ><TH WIDTH="20%" ALIGN="CENTER" VALIGN="MIDDLE" >Required</TH ><TH WIDTH="20%" ALIGN="CENTER" VALIGN="MIDDLE" >Default</TH ><TH WIDTH="20%" ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="MIDDLE" >Description</TH ></TR ></THEAD ><TBODY ><TR ><TD WIDTH="20%" ALIGN="CENTER" VALIGN="MIDDLE" >1</TD ><TD WIDTH="20%" ALIGN="CENTER" VALIGN="MIDDLE" >string</TD ><TD WIDTH="20%" ALIGN="CENTER" VALIGN="MIDDLE" >No</TD ><TD WIDTH="20%" ALIGN="CENTER" VALIGN="MIDDLE" ><SPAN CLASS="emphasis" ><I CLASS="emphasis" >empty</I ></SPAN ></TD ><TD WIDTH="20%" ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="MIDDLE" >This is the default value to output if the variable is empty.</TD ></TR ></TBODY ></TABLE ><P ></P ></DIV ><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" CLASS="EXAMPLE" ><TR ><TD ><DIV CLASS="example" ><A NAME="AEN927" ></A ><P ><B >Example 5-9. default</B ></P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" CELLPADDING="5" ><TR ><TD ><code><span style="color: #000000"> <span style="color: #0000BB"><?php<br /><br />$smarty</span><span style="color: #007700">-></span><span style="color: #0000BB">assign</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'articleTitle'</span><span style="color: #007700">, </span><span style="color: #DD0000">'Dealers Will Hear Car Talk at Noon.'</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">$smarty</span><span style="color: #007700">-></span><span style="color: #0000BB">assign</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'email'</span><span style="color: #007700">, </span><span style="color: #DD0000">''</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /><br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">?></span> </span> </code></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><P > Where template is: </P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" CELLPADDING="5" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="programlisting" >{$articleTitle|default:'no title'} {$myTitle|default:'no title'} {$email|default:'No email address available'}</PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><P > Will output: </P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" CELLPADDING="5" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="screen" >Dealers Will Hear Car Talk at Noon. no title No email address available</PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><P > See also the <A HREF="tips.default.var.handling.html" >default variable handling</A > and the <A HREF="tips.html#tips.blank.var.handling" >blank variable handling</A > pages. </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="language.modifier.date.format.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="language.modifier.escape.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >date_format</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="language.modifiers.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >escape</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >