PHP in templates

[Excell]

I added this php snippet into the category template browse.html

<%php%>$defaultkeyword="$page_title";<%/php%>

in the hope of generating a keyword using the page title for another application. However, this didn't work.

How to make the $page_title work within the php code? Thank you.

[Bruceper]

This has nothing to do with php, it's smarty you are wanting

<%$page_title%>

[Excell]

Hi Bruce,

Thank you for the information.

I know <%$page_title%> can be used alone in the template. But in my case the above php code is necessary in order to activate a correspondent script.

I just want to figure out how to have the <%$page_title%> or its alternatives work in the php code. I tried various expressions, all failed.