<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >assign()</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="Smarty Class Methods()" HREF="api.functions.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="append_by_ref()" HREF="api.append.by.ref.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="assign_by_ref()" HREF="api.assign.by.ref.html"><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="refentry" 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="api.append.by.ref.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="api.assign.by.ref.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="api.assign" ></A >assign()</H1 ><DIV CLASS="refnamediv" ><A NAME="AEN5454" ></A >assign() -- assign values to the templates</DIV ><DIV CLASS="refsect1" ><A NAME="AEN5457" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 >void <B CLASS="methodname" >assign</B > ( mixed var)<BR ></BR >void <B CLASS="methodname" >assign</B > ( string varname, mixed var)<BR ></BR ><P > You can explicitly pass name/value pairs, or associative arrays containing the name/value pairs. </P ><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" CLASS="EXAMPLE" ><TR ><TD ><DIV CLASS="example" ><A NAME="AEN5475" ></A ><P ><B >Example 13-1. assign()</B ></P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" CELLPADDING="5" ><TR ><TD ><code><span style="color: #000000"> <span style="color: #0000BB"><?php<br /></span><span style="color: #FF8000">// passing name/value pairs<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">$smarty</span><span style="color: #007700">-></span><span style="color: #0000BB">assign</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'Name'</span><span style="color: #007700">, </span><span style="color: #DD0000">'Fred'</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">$smarty</span><span style="color: #007700">-></span><span style="color: #0000BB">assign</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'Address'</span><span style="color: #007700">, </span><span style="color: #0000BB">$address</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /><br /></span><span style="color: #FF8000">// passing an associative array<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">$smarty</span><span style="color: #007700">-></span><span style="color: #0000BB">assign</span><span style="color: #007700">(array(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'city' </span><span style="color: #007700">=> </span><span style="color: #DD0000">'Lincoln'</span><span style="color: #007700">, </span><span style="color: #DD0000">'state' </span><span style="color: #007700">=> </span><span style="color: #DD0000">'Nebraska'</span><span style="color: #007700">));<br /><br /></span><span style="color: #FF8000">// passing an array<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">$myArray </span><span style="color: #007700">= array(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'no' </span><span style="color: #007700">=> </span><span style="color: #0000BB">10</span><span style="color: #007700">, </span><span style="color: #DD0000">'label' </span><span style="color: #007700">=> </span><span style="color: #DD0000">'Peanuts'</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">$smarty</span><span style="color: #007700">-></span><span style="color: #0000BB">assign</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'foo'</span><span style="color: #007700">,</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$myArray</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /><br /></span><span style="color: #FF8000">// passing a row from a database (eg adodb)<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">$sql </span><span style="color: #007700">= </span><span style="color: #DD0000">'select id, name, email from contacts where contact ='</span><span style="color: #007700">.</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$id</span><span style="color: #007700">;<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">$smarty</span><span style="color: #007700">-></span><span style="color: #0000BB">assign</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'contact'</span><span style="color: #007700">, </span><span style="color: #0000BB">$db</span><span style="color: #007700">-></span><span style="color: #0000BB">getRow</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$sql</span><span style="color: #007700">));<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">?></span> </span> </code></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><P > These are accessed in the template with </P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" CELLPADDING="5" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="programlisting" >{* note the vars are case sensitive like php *} {$Name} {$Address} {$city} {$state} {$foo.no}, {$foo.label} {$contact.id}, {$contact.name},{$contact.email}</PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><P > To access more complex array assignments see <A HREF="language.function.foreach.html" ><TT CLASS="varname" >{foreach}</TT ></A > and <A HREF="language.function.section.html" ><TT CLASS="varname" >{section}</TT ></A > </P ><P > See also <A HREF="api.assign.by.ref.html" ><TT CLASS="varname" >assign_by_ref()</TT ></A >, <A HREF="api.get.template.vars.html" ><TT CLASS="varname" >get_template_vars()</TT ></A >, <A HREF="api.clear.assign.html" ><TT CLASS="varname" >clear_assign()</TT ></A >, <A HREF="api.append.html" ><TT CLASS="varname" >append()</TT ></A > and <A HREF="language.custom.functions.html#language.function.assign" 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