smarty question.. way to step in and out of literal?

[duckduckgoose]

So, I want to be able to pass some variables from php to js. It's likely that I'm not really thinking about this the right way, but is there a way to do it?

I thought I'd have to do it from within the tpl file... So, I have my script surrounded by {literal} {/literal}, but within the script, I want to have:

var thisvariable = {$somevariable}

Which, doesn't work... Is there another, more obvious way to do this?

[Kudose]

The easiest way around this is to change the Smarty delimiters to somethign other than { and }, such as <{ and }>

If you don't want to do that, please post more code as I've done this in the past and know it is supported.