[SOLVED] smarty template

[phorcon3]

here's the file that will output the data

 

<?php
$a = mysql_query("SELECT `col1`, `col2` FROM `table` WHERE `blah` = 'blah' ORDER BY `blah` DESC");
while($b = mysql_fetch_assoc($a))
{
$blah[] = $b;
}

$smarty->assign('blah', $blah); 
?>

 

the template file would be:

 

{section name=i loop=$blah} 
{$blah[i].col1} / {$blah[i].col2}
{/section}

 

and i have a function, which i wanna use for all col2s. i wanna shorten the text for col2, which would look somewhat like this

 

<?php
short($b['col2']);
?>

 

but how do you do this with smarty?

 

i mean, this wouldnt work of course

 

{section name=i loop=$blah} 
{$blah[i].col1} / {short($blah[i].col2)}
{/section}

 

does anyone here use smarty and can help me with this? id appreciate it. thanks.

[phorcon3]

nevermind.i got it.