[thisclicks]

I figured it out. It's a bit more dynamic this way. This will work for current_category descriptions that have one var defined in them as ##VAR##. put this in the home.php along with the other smarty assigns. you'll need to change the smarty var reference in your tpl to this new one.

PHP Code:

$cat_desc = $current_category['description'];

if (strpos($cat_desc, '##', 0)) {
    
    $cat_lng_str = substr($cat_desc, strpos($cat_desc, '##', 0), strpos($cat_desc, '##', 1));
    
    $cat_lng_var = str_replace("##", "", $cat_lng_str);
    
    $tmp_lng = func_get_langvar_by_name("$cat_lng_var");
    
    $smarty->assign("cat_desc", str_replace($cat_lng_str, $tmp_lng, $current_category['description']));

} else {

    $smarty->assign("cat_desc", $current_category['description']);

}