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I found the following on SmartyFeatureSuggestions:

Adding A While Loop

I actually did this. It was suprisingly simple, and came in quite handy.

I made three minor changes to Smarty_Compiler.Class.php.

First I changed the number of arguments to function _compile_if_tag as follows:

    /**
     * Compile {if ...} tag
     *
     * @param string $tag_args
     * @param boolean $elseif if true, uses elseif instead of if
     * @param boolean $while if true, uses while instead of if or elseif
     * @return string
     */
    function _compile_if_tag($tag_args, $elseif = false, $while = false)

Then, at the bootom of the same function, I modified the return logic to read:

        if ($while)
            return '<?php while ('.implode(' ',$tokens).'): ?>';
        elseif ($elseif)
            return '<?php elseif ('.implode(' ', $tokens).'): ?>';
        else
            return '<?php if ('.implode(' ', $tokens).'): ?>';
    }

and finally, in function _compile_tag, I added the following in the long switch case block:

            case 'while':
                $this->_push_tag('while');
                return $this->_compile_if_tag($tag_args,false,true);

            case '/while':
                $this->_pop_tag('while');
                return '<?php endwhile; ?>';

For completeness sake, I guess you could make a {whileelse} tag too, by wraping the while in an if and doing a conditional close, like you do for section/sectionelse, but just the while loop was enough for me.

Implementation was simple enough and I got my desired results. Here is the code I used in the while loop:

<label for="beds">Min. Beds:</label>
<select name="min_beds" id="min_beds">
<option value="any">Any</option>
{assign var="i" value=0}
{while $i < $max_beds}
{assign var="i" value=$i+1}
<option value="{$i}">{$i}</option>
{/while}
</select>


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