Trying to understand Smarty

[vertigos]

Hi there.

As you can see i'm new to smarty and never before wanted to learn.

But as i want to create a new page, i have to learn.

So i've read a lot about at smarty.net but still can't understand how to compile smarty with db.

I'm trying this in php

$query = 'SELECT * FROM tblaffiliates WHERE clientid=\'' . $_SESSION['uid'] . '\'';   
    $result = mysql_query ($query);
   $data = mysql_fetch_array ($result);

$smarty->assign ('affiliateid', $id);

 

and this in tpl file

Sorry {$clientsdetails.firstname} !!  This is you {$affiliateid}

 

It understands clientsdetails.firstname without have it assigned in php but affiliate id doesn't recognise it.

What am i doing wrong??

 

This is just a sample btw

[sparky]

you are assigning an empty or NULL variable ($id)

try changing the last line to

$smarty->assign ('affiliateid', $data['id']);

[vertigos]

Oh.

I never thought about that.

Anyway

 

And why $clientsdetails.firstname is allready assigned ?

[sparky]

$clientsdetails.firstname is assigned when a user logs in

[vertigos]

if i run {debug} at login.php it will show me which are assigned when a user is logged in? Where can i see that?

Ty very much for the help sparky.

And for the help you've given to whmcs also

[sparky]

how are you putting the debug smarty tag into an encoded php file?

Don't you mean login.tpl

place the {debug} tag into any of the tpl files and a popup window will show with the assigned variables (so long as you arn't using a popup blocker)