[SOLVED] Assigning in Smarty

[cheechm]

If I have an array say as follows:

$lang = array (
'welcome'                  => "Welcome to the official website of SITENAME"
);

 

could I assign, eg

$template>assign($lang)

 

So that I could go

{$welcome}

 

?

 

Thanks for the help

[cheechm]

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