Smarty

Versuch mal den Modifier m:
m (PCRE_MULTILINE)
By default, PCRE treats the subject string as consisting of a single "line" of characters (even if it actually contains several newlines ...

So you're assigning everything but the JavaScript to Smarty and are surprised, that everything but the JavaScript shows up in the output?

What does
{$vehicles.trucks.$space|@print_r}
output?

You either have to modify your $menu array to already contain the values you want, or create a modifier that modifies your array the way you want it or just prepend it in the PHP file processing the s ...

A 2-dimensional associative array suffices:
array(
array(
'name' => '...',
'short' => '...',
'link' => '...'),
array(
'name' => '...',
's ...

Are you sure, you're checking the $_SESSION variable after connect() and not before? connect() is where the magic should happen.

Also make sure you're using SmartyPaginate::getCurrentIndex() and Sm ...

Try this:
<input type="text" name="Currency[{$countryId}]" value="{$smarty.post.Currency.$countryId}" />

You need to assign() them prior to your display() call.

http://www.smarty.net/manual/en/api.assign.php

Something like this will most likely not be interpreted as you intend it by the compiler:
{include file="header.tpl" title="$user->firstName's Dashboard"}

try this ...

Smarty only compiles into PHP code. This means that templated only need to be parsed once (for variable replacements etc) but need to be interpreted on every call by the PHP interpreter.

Smarty 3 w ...

The best way would be to use absolute filepaths. For this you need the file path to your public_html folder. The magic PHP constant __FILE__ should contain that path.

It's a common thing to extend the Smarty class.
However, to set custom include paths you don't need to. A file like this - included in every file that uses Smarty - suffices:
include '/path/to/Smart ...

Here i'm using an {include file="header.tpl"} function....
{include_php file="libs/client/part/header.tpl"}
No, you're not.

Please refrain from posting the same question twice. You won't get twice as many answers if you do.
Also note, that "Tips and Tricks" is not for support questions.

Link to the thread in ...

How do you call that function?