Smarty Class Variables {#api.variables}

These are all of the available Smarty class variables. You can access them directly, or use the corresponding setter/getter methods.

• $allow_php_templates
• $auto_literal
• $autoload_filters
• $cache_dir
• $cache_id
• $cache_lifetime
• $cache_locking
• $cache_modified_check
• $caching
• $caching_type
• $compile_check
• $compile_dir
• $compile_id
• $compile_locking
• $compiler_class
• $config_booleanize
• $config_dir
• $config_overwrite
• $config_read_hidden
• $debug_tpl
• $debugging
• $debugging_ctrl
• $default_config_type
• $default_modifiers
• $default_resource_type
• $default_config_handler_func
• $default_template_handler_func
• $direct_access_security
• $error_reporting
• $escape_html
• $force_cache
• $force_compile
• $left_delimiter
• $locking_timeout
• $merge_compiled_includes
• $plugins_dir
• $right_delimiter
• $smarty_debug_id
• $template_dir
• $trusted_dir
• $use_include_path
• $use_sub_dirs

> Note > > All class variables have magic setter/getter methods available. > setter/getter methods are camelCaseFormat, unlike the variable itself. > So for example, you can set and get the \$smarty-\>template\_dir > variable with \$smarty-\>setTemplateDir(\$dir) and \$dir = > \$smarty-\>getTemplateDir() respectively.

> Note > > See > Changing settings by template > section for how to change Smarty class variables for individual > templates.