HTML templates - accessing variables

[bloodjelly]

Hi -

I'm having trouble accessing variables through php that have been assigned for use in a template (for example: 'USERNAME' => $template['username']). After doing this I can use {USERNAME} in the HTML part of the template file and see the username.

The problem is that I want to access the username variable via PHP in the template file, not just through the HTML part.

Can anyone explain how to do this? Thanks very much for the help [img src=\"style_emoticons/[#EMO_DIR#]/smile.gif\" style=\"vertical-align:middle\" emoid=\":smile:\" border=\"0\" alt=\"smile.gif\" /]