php - How to assign an array within a smarty template file?

Question

I was wondering if it was possible to assign an array to a variable within a Smarty template file? I have tried this

{assign var='file' value = array('dir','doc','exe')}

But when I print out the array it produces this:

array('dir','doc','exe') 

How can I stop Smarty escaping the array values?

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

{php}
  $this->assign("array", array('dir','doc','exe'));
{/php}

{foreach from=$array item=item}
  {$item}
{/foreach}

From Smarty v.3 new syntax is available

{$array = ['item1','item2',$item3]}

see for more details : http://www.smarty.net/docs/en/language.syntax.variables.tpl