[bluesman]

The ternary operator is implemented in smarty 3. It can be used on assignments and output.

Examples:
{$x=($y==2)?$foo:$bar}
{assign var=x value=($y==2)?$foo:$bar}
{($y==2)?$foo:$bar}

If you modifiers you have to put the expression into parentheses to avoid ambiguity of the ':'.
{($y==2)?($foo|truncate):$bar}

Mislim da polako developeri zadiru sve više u Smarty i zahtevaju klasične programerske "shortcuts", nekako nisam baš za ovo (iako je meni lakše).