[sk8conz]

I'm trying to reformat a string and then pass it to our shipping companies web site for tracking.

I have done it previously in asp / vb but am new to smarty and am finding the syntax a little hard going.

Heres the vb code

 ticketnumber = replace (ticketnumber ," ", "")  'remove spaces
  ticketnumber = replace (ticketnumber ,".", "") 'remove .
  serial_number = right (ticketnumber,8)   ' get serial number - always 8 digits
  product_code = left (ticketnumber,(len(ticketnumber)-8)) ' get product code, could be 2 or 3 char

Can someone give me a "translation" for Smarty ?

Seems from (my very limited) expereince I will need to set it up as a plugin and do it under php ???

Thanks