Create an Array that interacts with CS-Cart Smarty Variables

Store Builder Questions
1

I’m new to Smarty and CS-Cart in general,





I was able to create a foreach loop in smarty, outputting a list of categories:


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{foreach from=$categories item="category" name="categories"}<br />
  {$category.category}<br />
{/foreach}<br />

```<br />
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That works, but now I'm trying to create an array with the information, but I don't know where to begin.<br />
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I tried doing it in html, putting my code in between {php} {/php} tags, but cscart seemed to ignore it all together.
2

Please explain further? You San to store the info from cs cart array into. A new array??

3

thank you for responding!



Yes, I'm trying to store information from a CS Cart array into my own array. I'm doing this because I'm trying to write a custom PHP function on a product list template.



I don't know the first thing about doing that in CS Cart.

4

Just change the setting in config.local.php to allow php template code in templates.

5

don't use PHP in templates!!!



If you have a PHP array just assign it to a template variable in your PHP code like:


Registry::get('view')->assign('name_of_variable', $array_data);




Embedding PHP code in templates is not only bad design, but it causes the template engine to recurse which chews up performance.