shows you how to extend smarty with custom plugins (blocks, functions and modifierts) and keep the functions inside the module folder
adding "vt/smartyext" to "require"
create vt-devutils folder and put code in it. Then move it into the modules directory in your shop. You will find the code snippet in the module description in OXID backend
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