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www.it-ebooks.infoCHAPTER 19 • TEMPLATING WITH SMARTY$smarty->display("truncate.tpl");The truncate.tpl template contains the following:{foreach $summaries as $summary}{$summary|truncate:35:"..."}{/foreach}This returns the following:Snow expected in the Northeast...Sunny and warm weather expected...Softball-sized hail reported in...Control StructuresSmarty offers several control structures capable of conditionally and iteratively evaluating passed-indata. These structures are introduced in this section.The if FunctionSmarty’s if function operates much like the identical function in the PHP language. As with PHP, anumber of conditional qualifiers are available, all of which are displayed here:• eq • le • is not odd • ==• Gt • Ne • div by • !=• Gte • Neq • even by • >• Ge • is even • not • 5}Gotta love the weekend!{/if}Consider another example. Suppose you want to insert a certain message based on the month. Thefollowing example uses conditional qualifiers and elseif and else to carry out this task:397