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Hi,

maybe I'm out of practise and this is just a stupid question but I need to know this.
I try to insert a banner display method into my blog and therefore I need to know how to access s9y's variables within Smarty. I know that usually in a PHP script I can access them with $serendipity['serendipityPath'] or $serendipity['fetchLimit']. According to Smarty's documentation I could use $serendipity.fetchLimit for associative variables. But nothing is displayed.

Another issue is the access for those variables within Smarty plugins. My plan is to write a Smarty function for displaying banners and therefore I need path names, for example. I could use hardcoded paths, but this would be amazing bad programming style.

Any hints or tips?

Actually, because of performance reasons, not all $serendipity values are assigned to Smarty. See include/functions_smarty.inc.php in the smarty_init() function call.

If you want to assign more or all of Serendipity's values to your template, create a "config.inc.php" file in your template directory:
Best regards,
Garvin