from a smarty variable to a php string... how to do it?????

My head just exploded, I'm busy for several hours now to do one simple thing...

I want to turn the smarty variable

{$cat.ID}

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into

$id

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in a .tpl file. I just don't know how to do it... please help me

 

it is incomprehensible a bit what exactly do you mean. Can you show whole part of this code?

 

You can try using this in the .tpl file.

{php}$id{php}

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