Smarty

[mystrymaster]

so I need to be able to get the first letter of a smarty assigned variable in my template to be able to generate a list of letters across the top for targated hrefs in the page

I know how to get them in php however I don't know how to get smarty to out put the <a name='letterHere'></a> Only on the first instance of the letter.

Is there a way that I can get the first letter of a smarty assigned variable?

[boots]

the absolute simplest way to do so would be to use the PHP substr function as a modifier:

{$var|substr:0:1}

You might consider writing a custom modifier to pacakge this in a more straightforward manner, perhaps {$var|firstletter}

HTH

[mystrymaster]

thanks boots works perfectly - maybe after I get a little more comfortable with smarty I will right a modifier for it.