Smarty

[kevincam]

I always use assign to pass constants to my smarty templates. I was wondering if it is any faster or better if I just use direct access to the constants via the Smarty Reserved Variable $smarty.const.

[boots]

I think of it as more of an access/api question. How do you want your template users to think of those values? Do you want them to use the $smarty var to access them or not? Worry not for speed: Smarty compiles

[kevincam]

That is right, smarty does compile so no difference in speed, since I've been doing everything I hadn't thought about access/api for someone who would just be doing the html. In my opinion I think the assign would be better for a strictly html person. since they may not know what I define, I can always make an assign to whatever temp placeholder variable they used. Thanks for the quick feedback and response.