Smarty help

[silent54]

Real new to php and I'm trying to do the following but keep running into walls.

Create 2 PHP pages that use the same Smarty template and contain the following:
• The first page should contain the title and heading of "Fruits".
• The second page should contain the title and heading of "Vegetables".
• The first page should contain a list of 5 fruits.
• The second page should contain a list of 5 vegetables.
• links to both pages at the bottom of the each page. (will do later)
• The template should use the same Smarty variable for the page title and
heading. The lists should use the section function.

The following are 3 of the 4 pages I need. I know that the fruits and veggie php pages will be somewhat the same. What I've got so far is a fruits.php, food.tpl, header.tpl. Obviously, all the basic html coding is missing.

fruits.php:

<?

require('/usr/local/lib/php/Smarty/Smarty.class.php');

$smarty = new Smarty;

$smarty->assign("title", 'Fruits');
$smarty->assign("foods", array('pears','mangos','apples','kiwi','grapes'));

$smarty->display('food.tpl')

?>

food.tpl:

{include file="header.tpl" title="Food List"}

<table>
{section name=mysec loop=$foods}
{strip}
<tr bgcolor="{cycle values='#eeeeee,#dddddd'}">
<td>{$foods[mysec]}</td>
</tr>
{/strip}
{/section}
</table>

header.tpl:

<title>{$title|default:"My Fruit List"}</title>

[Bilbozilla]

I think you want to use some of the

if(isset($variable_name)){
        list of things to do
}

constructs.
wherein you can selectively display values depending on how a variable is defined.

You will want to read up on using session variables. These will be key in keeping the "state" of your pages and passing variables around from page to page.

I'm a beginner also, and can't provide much guidance beyond that.

[silent54]

Will the problem with using session is that I can't. I'm stuck with select requirements for this as posted in my initial requirements. Thanks though.