<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >cat</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="Variable Modifiers" HREF="language.modifiers.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="Variable Modifiers" HREF="language.modifiers.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="count_characters" HREF="language.modifier.count.characters.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.modifiers.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" >Chapter 5. Variable Modifiers</TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="language.modifier.count.characters.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><DIV CLASS="sect1" ><H1 CLASS="sect1" ><A NAME="language.modifier.cat" ></A >cat</H1 ><P > This value is concatenated to the given variable. </P ><DIV CLASS="informaltable" ><A NAME="AEN628" ></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" >cat</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 value to catenate to the given variable.</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="AEN650" ></A ><P ><B >Example 5-3. cat</B ></P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" CELLPADDING="5" ><TR ><TD ><code><span style="color: #000000"> <span style="color: #0000BB"><?php<br /><br />$smarty</span><span style="color: #007700">-></span><span style="color: #0000BB">assign</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'articleTitle'</span><span style="color: #007700">, </span><span style="color: #DD0000">"Psychics predict world didn't end"</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /><br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">?></span> </span> </code></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><P > Where template is: </P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" CELLPADDING="5" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="programlisting" >{$articleTitle|cat:' yesterday.'}</PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><P > Will output: </P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" CELLPADDING="5" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="screen" >Psychics predict world didn't end yesterday.</PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></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.modifiers.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.count.characters.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >Variable Modifiers</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" >count_characters</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >