Smarty

Can anyone give me some pointers on how exactly smarty handles the instance of people inserting straight PHP into the templates, like when they use the {PHP} tags?

Does smarty use eval()?

I am w ...

I have a problem, I am trying to set a variable upfront for the template

using $this->assign('var','<? echo 'php' ?>');

Now as you can see there would be php code as the actual variabl ...

Yeah, using a wsysiwyg.

I have been trying to use the re-write postfilter or pre-filter, the only issue is that I still have to keep track of versioning with the images which can be a pain if you ...

I am trying to understand this.

If I set the template directory above the web root for security reasons won;t I then suffer issues with the paths for things like images?

Does it mean that I h ...

I just need someone to confirm for me the way I am approaching this.

I figure that the smarty engine is great for the areas of the site tat I want to make generating page design easy and the pages ...