Call a function in HTML

[k0a1a]

Hi there, I'm new to PHP, can you please give me an idea.

 

My PHP application is a Web site developed by some 3rd party developer. Exact execution flow is not known to me, but approximately it goes like that: a home-made CMS written in PHP selects data from database and then calls HTML template. In this template special constructs like {val var="title_`$smarty.session.lang`"} get evaluated and replaced with their values. Then the whole HTML is returned to the client.

It must have something to do with Smarty.

 

Now the question. I need to assign a variable the value, which is a random number.

I know how to assign a constant to a variable: {assign var=myVariable value="1"}

So the "little" thing I'm missing is - how to assign it a result of mt_rand(0,1) instead of the constant 1?

 

Thank you in advance!

[p2grace]

Is it an actual php page?  Could you put literal php code into the system?

 

{assign var=myVariable value="<?php rand(); ?>"}

[k0a1a]

The value of the variable becomes then: <?php rand(); ?>

It does not evaluate it but treats as a string. Same thing BTW with arithmetic expressions such as 3+2.

[jonsjava]

rand is a built-in class, that when you give it a low and high number, it will randomly choose a number between those 2 numbers, so to use it, you would enter

{assign var=myVariable value="<?php print rand(1,5); ?>"}

or whatever number range you want to use.

[k0a1a]

Thanks folks for the attempts! In fact, assign is documented here. Not sure if it's possible to achieve my goal with assign at all, I gave up experimenting pretty soon and implemented random number in that logic in CMS, which retrieves data from DB.