www.smarty.net/best_practices

Although Smarty helps facilitate the separation of business logic (PHP) from presentation, that does not mean it prevents poor implementation. No different than any other software, Smarty has a learning curve. Smarty does not guarantee good application ...

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Smarty is a template engine for PHP. This site has an active forum.

www.smarty.net/docsv2/en/chapter.debugging.console.tpl

There is a debugging console included with Smarty. The console informs you of all the included templates, assigned variables and config file variables for the current invocation of the template. A template file named debug.tpl is included with the dist ...

www.smarty.net/docs/en/api.get.template.vars.tpl

getTemplateVars() — returns assigned variable value(s)

stackoverflow.com/questions/716916/print-all-variables-avail...

How do you print all variables available in the context of a Smarty template?

This is a forum thread dealing with this topic.

stackoverflow.com/questions/7254679/smarty-getting-posted-se...

This is a forum thread dealing with this topic.

stackoverflow.com/questions/11799652/how-to-get-all-assigned...

I would like to get all variables assigned to Smarty inside the template.

This is a forum thread dealing with this topic.

www.smarty.net/forums/viewtopic.php?p=80179&sid=beefca853a86...

I would like to make sure that getTemplateVars () only returns the templatevars from the last fetch(). Now if a request results in two fetches getTemplateVars also returns the global_tpl_vars created in the previous template.
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www.smarty.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=11435

i wan to print all value which is store in an array like print_r() function 

www.smarty.net/forums/viewtopic.php?p=85157

This links is more about the existance of the modifier debug_print_var

www.smarty.net/forums/viewtopic.php?p=53011

does anyone know how to set a global smarty variable from within an include?

www.smarty.net/forums/viewtopic.php?p=67503

Is there a way to show the full variable name in the debug console?

forum.whmcs.com/showthread.php?28386-smarty-template-value-o...

If anyone here can tell me how to access the smarty $template value (also the same as the &systpl= value) via an action hook, I'd appreciate it.

stackoverflow.com/questions/2431763/how-to-debug-variables-i...

I have some variables inside a template and I don't know where I assigned them. I need to know what is inside a particular variable; for instance, say I have a variable in smarty called member. I tried with but it didn't work, and no popup was shown.< ...

www.electrictoolbox.com/var-dump-print-r-inside-smarty-templ...

While trying to debug why something wasn't working, I needed to see what data had been assigned to a Smarty template but from within the template itself (I didn't have time to try and work out where in the PHP code the stuff was assigned and debug from ...

www.smarty.net/docs/en/language.syntax.variables.tpl

Template variables start with the $dollar sign. They can contain numbers, letters and underscores, much like a PHP variable. You can reference arrays by index numerically or non-numerically. Also reference object properties and methods.

www.smarty.net/docs/en/advanced.features.objects.tpl

Smarty allows access to PHP objects through the templates.

www.phpeveryday.com/articles/Smarty-Variable-Object-P613.htm...

tutorial php about how to use object as variable at smarty template

stackoverflow.com/questions/5262809/access-php-array-in-smar...

This is a stackoverflow thread on this topic.

stackoverflow.com/questions/2244319/how-to-assign-an-array-w...

This is a stackoverflow thread on this topic.