How to concatenate a string with a variable in SMARTY?

Question

PHP

It is necessary to add slashes at the beginning and at the end when displaying the link ( catalog/{$cat->url} ).
To be something like this (php): var = '/'.catalog/{$cat->url}.'/'
Now the url is returned without the leading and trailing slash.

<a href="catalog/{$cat->url}" data-category="{$cat->id}">{$cat->name|escape}</a>

Answer 1

what's stopping you from writing like this?

<a href="/catalog/{$cat->url}/" data-category="{$cat->id}">{$cat->name|escape}</a>