How to pass data from controller to smarty template?

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Which variables are available in the theme?

hello, are you familar with the mvc? basically you have a php controller, which collects data, does some magic und passes this data to smarty to render the views / templates. Sometimes you will find something like this in the templates: $this->_aViewsData["product"] = $oArticle; $this->addTplParam("product",$oArticle;); which are the same and mean, that php “sends” the $oArticle object to the view and in this case you will be able to access this object in the teplate by using [{ $product }…