[SMARTY] Accessing Assigned Variables

I know I saw this in the mailing list someplace, but I can't find it. 
(It would be nice if the mailing list archive were searchable! :) ).

in my php:

$smarty->assign("var1","data");

then later, I want to do something like this:

if ($smarty.variables.var1 == "data")
...

possible?


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