Smarty: Request variables and other useful smarty functions

{$smarty} reserved variable

The PHP reserved {$smarty} variable can be used to access several enviroment and request variables. The full list of them follows.

Request variables

{* display value of page from URL ($_GET) phplessonstips.blogspot.in/index.php?page=foo *}
{$smarty.get.page}

{* display the variable "page" from a form ($_POST['page']) *}
{$smarty.post.page}

{* display the value of the cookie "username" ($_COOKIE['username']) *}
{$smarty.cookies.username}

{* display the server variable "SERVER_NAME" ($_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'])*}
{$smarty.server.SERVER_NAME}

{* display the system environment variable "PATH" *}
{$smarty.env.PATH}

{* display the php session variable "id" ($_SESSION['id']) *}
{$smarty.session.id}

{* display the variable "username" from merged get/post/cookies/server/env *}
{$smarty.request.username}

{$smarty.now}

The current timestamp can be accessed with {$smarty.now}
{* use the date_format modifier to show current date and time *}
{$smarty.now|date_format:'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S'}

{$smarty.version}
Returns the version of Smarty the template was compiled with.