Smarty

[Kryllster]

Why doesnt this work

$gold = $smarty->assign('gold',$gold);

That is in my php script

in my template I have

{$gold}

where I want that variable displayed??

also in my php script I have above that:

$gold = mt_rand(1000,4000);

why is it not displaying in my template Im not undertanding it? I have looked at the docs and the forums but there probably is an explantion but different people undertand well differently??

** Edited

I have used smarty for about 2 years now and really all I have ever done is small stuff. mostly static pages and a small amount of php. Now, tho, I am learning more about php so i need to learn differently about how smaty works and how to do things with scripts outside of smarty and take their output to another page or template. I have been working on this game which was come to find out very insecure or unsecure however it goes. I had been basically doing a lot of buttons in form form to post or act as links. I didnt realise this complicates matters. I have been looking all over this forum for understanding where to go next cause its not just static anymore I need to learn how to do it dynamically I guess. I am new still but I want to learn more. I took one of the little post buttons out of the html page but now I dont know how to run the script and get the variable I need after the script is run as a link i have

<a href="mainview2.php?diamond=main">Link Here</a> where as before it was

<form action="scriptname.php" method="post">
<input type="submit" value="Click Here to run script kinna">
</form>
which was running the script fine and redirect to the right template did the database work the script works fine excet when I send it to the corresponding page I can get the variables form the output I want on that page. I know this is a long one but I am very confused cause now it wont even run lol I have royally made a boo boo I think but I need to realearn I supose.

Thanks for any help in advance I wanna learn cause someday I may actually need the knowledge!

Kryllster aka Terry

Thanks for your help?

Kryllster

[Kryllster]

Well for what it might be worth here is my code I'm trying to use?

[Celeb]

You need to display() a template in order for it to be displayed.

If you're taking the browser to a different location using a HTML header all your assigned Smarty variables are gone.
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[Kryllster]

Thanks for showing me that I have learned so much from the past 48 hrs and it is going to help tremendously. It worked really well and I feel like I have passed into a whole other dimension lol!!

I cant say thank you enough!



Kryllster