With Smarty 2.x you're left needing to do something like: {assign var=foo value="some string"} {$user[$foo]} Smarty 3.x has a legitimate lexer/parser so the te

With Smarty 2.x you're left needing to do something like: {assign var=foo value="some string"} {$user[$foo]} Smarty 3.x has a legitimate lexer/parser so the templates will be much more flexible. I think they finally realized that since they are compiling the templates anyway the parsing can be slow.