Smarty php variables output - php

Question

Using realestate script 3 which uses smarty 3.
I managed to create the loop which gets information from the database.
<?php
function smarty_function_my_plugin($params,&$smarty)
{
$con=mysqli_connect("localhost","root","","res3");
// Check connection
if (mysqli_connect_errno()) {
echo "Failed to connect to MySQL: " . mysqli_connect_error();
} else {
$result = mysqli_query($con,"SELECT * FROM res3_listings WHERE listing_type_id=5 ORDER BY views DESC");
while($row = mysqli_fetch_array($result)) {
$title=$row['title_1'];
$price=$row['price'] ;
$id=$row['listing_id'];
$result = mysqli_query($con,"SELECT listing_photo_file FROM res3_listing_photos WHERE listing_photo_id=1");
while($row = mysqli_fetch_array($result)) {
$picture=$row['listing_photo_file'];
}
echo $title. "<br/>".$price."<br/>".$picture;
$smarty->assign('naslov', $title);
echo "<br>";
}
}
mysqli_close($con);
echo '<h1>Test</h1>';
}
?>
So I put the script in plugins folder and return TEST echo at the end of script and 3 variables $title, $price, $picture. Using command in template {my_plugin}
But I want to have access to these variables so I can call them in *.tpl file, e.g.: {$title}
That way I can put HTML part in .tpl file and just insert variables I need from that function.
It should loop for 10 results on template file ;)

Answer 1

Theoretically your code have assigned to the naslov smarty variable the last title.
You can change it to append if you would access all of them.
This way theoretically after the {my_plugin} call you can access the titles in the {$naslov} variable.
Or you can return in your template with a $smarty->fetch('othertemplate.tpl') And you can use these variables in othertemplate.tpl.
For limiting the result to at most 10, probably the easiest way to append limit 10 to your db query.