According to this page on Smarty's Web site:

PHP Variables in Smarty Templates

You should be able to access a PHP variable from the template...However, I am having a rough go of it...

This is what I have put in the "mylinks_topten.html" template:

<{if $rate == 1}>
<img src="<{$xoops_url}>/modules/mylinks/images/chlulinkstop.jpg" border="0" alt="Top Rated Links" /></a>
<{else}>
<img src="<{$xoops_url}>/modules/mylinks/images/chlulinkspop.jpg" border="0" alt="Most Popular Links" /></a>
<{/if}>

It, as you might guess, is executing the else clause every time....Any ideas on what I am doing wrong? Do I need to make some sort of explicit reference to the PHP variable in order to access the value from the template? Thanks!

Put this line in the .php file to make the variable visible to Smarty:

$xoopsTpl->assign('rate', '1');

Also, you might try using 'eq' instead of '==' like this:

<{if $rate eq '1'}>

Dennis

Thanks for the reply...Am now traveling down the path you suggested...Probably did not dig enough before posting my question....Thanks again!