Access CI session from smarty templates

[eluser]Jagar[/eluser]
I found the way and it may not be the best.

I'm using smarty templating engine, and inside my libraries/smarty_parser.php inside parse function I have the following:

Code:

function parse($template, $data='', $return = false){
        if ($template == ''){
            return false;
        }

        $CI =& get_instance();
        
        $this->assign('admin_logged',$CI->session->userdata('admin_logged'));

........ more stuff here -------


       }

now whenever i want to check if the admin is logged in i simply do
{if $admin_logged)
more option for admin here
{/if}
Please if there is a better way to do it, please let me know, but I'm posting here in case anyone else is wondering.