Pinnacle Cart uses the Smarty Template Engine to generate site HTML.
Using the traditional <php> tag will allow php to be embedded, however they will not be escaped irregardless of the $php_handling setting. To properly embed php into your site template, please use {php} to include the code you wish to embed.
This is for advanced users only and not typically needed. Please see the example below
{php}
// including a php script directly
// from the template.
include("/path/to/display_weather.php");
{/php}
This will not work for custom boxes created from the admin area.

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