You can use pre-set smarty variables in your themes. Want to date and time your site? Want to include php codes in your theme?



Date and Time


<{$smarty.now|date_format:"%a, %b %e, %Y | %H:%M %Z"}>
You will have a short-form date and time: Fri, Jun 18, 2004 | 08:18:00 PDT

<{$smarty.now|date_format:"%A, %B %e, %Y | %H:%M %Z"}>
You will have a long-form date and time: Friday, June 18, 2004 | 08:18:00 PDT

Please be sure to check out smarty.php.net, if you want to learn more about smarty.

The time and date from smarty.now is your server’s time, may or may not be your own time. This is the drawback using it.

Use php code in the theme
<{php}>
your php codes here
<{/php}>

Official xoops smarty theme variables
<{$xoops_charset}>
Inserts the characterset info (meta tag info) e.g "iso-8859-1", "UTF-8"

<{$xoops_langcode}>
Content Language e.g. "DE", "EN"

<{$xoops_meta_keywords}>
Inserts the keyword list from the Meta/Footer settings (meta tag info)

<{$xoops_meta_description}>
Inserts the meta tag site description

<{$meta_copyright}>
Inserts the meta tag copyright text

<{$meta_robots}>
Inserts the W3C robot meta tag info

<{$meta_rating}>
Inserts the meta tag rating information

<{$xoops_sitename}>
Inserts the site name

<{$xoops_pagetitle}>
Inserts the page title

<{$xoops_theme}>
Theme's name in directory "/themes/"
e.g "default", "xt2"

<{$xoops_themecss}>
Inserts the style.css
e.g "http://www.xoops.org/themes/default/style.css"

(note, any combination of the above can be arranged to
fill out meta tag info to your liking)

<{$xoops_url}>
Inserts the site URL
e.g "http://www.xoops.org"

<{$xoops_js}>
Inserts XOOPS javascript code

<{$xoops_banner}>
Displays banners

<{foreach item=block from=$xoops_lblocks}>
<{$block}>
<{/foreach}>
Code snippet to display the left blocks

<{if $xoops_showcblock == 1}>
Tests for system settings to display center blocks

<{foreach item=block from=$xoops_ccblocks}>
<{$block}>
<{/foreach}>
Code snippet to show the center-center blocks

<{foreach item=block from=$xoops_clblocks}>
<{$block}>
<{/foreach}>
Code snippet to show the center-left blocks

<{foreach item=block from=$xoops_crblocks}>
<{$block}>
<{/foreach}>
Code snippet to show the center-right blocks

<{$xoops_contents}>
Show the news and other contents

<{if $xoops_showcblock == 1}>
Test for showing center blocks

<{if $xoops_showrblock == 1}>
Test for showing right blocks

<{foreach item=block from=$xoops_rblocks}>
<{$block}>
<{/foreach}>
Code snippet to show right blocks

<{$xoops_footer}>
Shows the footer

<{$xoops_isadmin}>
True if the visitor is Administrator

<{$xoops_isuser}>
True if the visitor is a logged in user

<{$xoops_userid}>
User ID of the member

<{$xoops_uname}>
Uname for the member

(source: xoops theme variables xoops WIKI)