Exchanging variables between templates and PHP

Assigning varibales from PHP into the template code

{php}

$variable = 'variable content';

$this->assign('SmartyVarsAreCaseSensitive', $variable);

{/php}

From PHP: {$SmartyVarsAreCaseSensitive}

Relevant pages from Smarty documentation: assign() and assign_by_ref()

Using template variables in PHP

{assign var="SmartyVarsAreCaseSensitive" value="variable content"}

Smarty template variable: {$SmartyVarsAreCaseSensitive}

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{php}

$variable = $this->get_template_vars('SmartyVarsAreCaseSensitive');
echo 'Smarty template variable in PHP: ';
echo $variable;

{/php}

Relevant pages from Smarty documentation: get_template_vars()

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