Smarty - Trouble Assigning

[Jessica]

I posted on Smarty's forums and no one has responded yet:

 

I have tried several versions of this, and nothing works. I want carDesc to have a string, the year make and model, which are values of $car. I can print them out normally, but all of these attempts to make one variable fail. I also cannot use the $car object's toString method, so I am at a loss.

 

Code:

 

{assign var=carDesc value='$car->year $car->make $car->modelDesc'}

{assign var=carDesc value=`$car->year $car->make $car->modelDesc`}

{assign var=carDesc value='{$car->year} {$car->make} {$car->modelDesc}'}

{assign var=carDesc value=`{$car->year} {$car->make} {$car->modelDesc}`}

 

 

I even tried making a toString wrapper so I could use the internal toString and that fails too!

Code:

 

{assign var=carDesc value=$car->toString()}

 

 

Help!