\$auto\_literal {#variable.auto.literal}
February 6, 2023 ยท View on GitHub
The Smarty delimiter tags { and } will be ignored so long as they are surrounded by white space. This behavior can be disabled by setting auto_literal to false.
::: {.informalexample}
<?php
$smarty->auto_literal = false;
?>
:::
See also Escaping Smarty parsing,