<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >{ldelim},{rdelim}</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="Smarty Manual" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="Built-in Functions" HREF="language.builtin.functions.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="{insert}" HREF="language.function.insert.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="{literal}" HREF="language.function.literal.html"><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="sect1" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >Smarty Manual</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="language.function.insert.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" >Chapter 7. Built-in Functions</TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="language.function.literal.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><DIV CLASS="sect1" ><H1 CLASS="sect1" ><A NAME="language.function.ldelim" ></A >{ldelim},{rdelim}</H1 ><P > <TT CLASS="varname" >{ldelim}</TT > and <TT CLASS="varname" >{rdelim}</TT > are used for <A HREF="language.escaping.html" >escaping</A > template delimiters, by default <SPAN CLASS="bold" ><B CLASS="emphasis" >{</B ></SPAN > and <SPAN CLASS="bold" ><B CLASS="emphasis" >}</B ></SPAN >. You can also use <A HREF="language.function.literal.html" ><TT CLASS="varname" >{literal}{/literal}</TT ></A > to escape blocks of text eg Javascript or CSS. See also the complimentary <A HREF="language.variables.smarty.html#language.variables.smarty.ldelim" ><TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >{$smarty.ldelim}</I ></TT ></A >. </P ><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" CLASS="EXAMPLE" ><TR ><TD ><DIV CLASS="example" ><A NAME="AEN2249" ></A ><P ><B >Example 7-23. {ldelim}, {rdelim}</B ></P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" CELLPADDING="5" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="programlisting" >{* this will print literal delimiters out of the template *} {ldelim}funcname{rdelim} is how functions look in Smarty!</PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><P > The above example will output: </P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" CELLPADDING="5" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="screen" >{funcname} is how functions look in Smarty!</PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><P >Another example with some Javascript</P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" CELLPADDING="5" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="programlisting" ><script language="JavaScript"> function foo() {ldelim} ... code ... {rdelim} </script></PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><P > will output </P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" CELLPADDING="5" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="screen" ><script language="JavaScript"> function foo() { .... code ... } </script></PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" CLASS="EXAMPLE" ><TR ><TD ><DIV CLASS="example" ><A NAME="AEN2258" ></A ><P ><B >Example 7-24. Another Javascript example</B ></P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" CELLPADDING="5" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="programlisting" ><script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript"> function myJsFunction(){ldelim} alert("The server name\n{$smarty.server.SERVER_NAME}\n{$smarty.server.SERVER_ADDR}"); {rdelim} </script> <a href="javascript:myJsFunction()">Click here for Server Info</a></PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><P >See also <A HREF="language.function.literal.html" ><TT CLASS="varname" >{literal}</TT ></A > and <A HREF="language.escaping.html" >escaping Smarty parsing</A >. </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.function.insert.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.function.literal.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >{insert}</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="language.builtin.functions.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >{literal}</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >