Using AUTH and some templating engine

I am writing an simple admin interface for a tabulation system. I am using PEAR Auth package to manage the authentication and Smarty for the UI templates. I have a code similar to what is illustrated below [PHPCODE] $params = array( "dsn" => $dsn, "table" => "users", "usernamecol" => "user_id", "passwordcol" => "user_passwd"); $a = new Auth("DB",$params,"loginForm"); $a->start(); .. .. .. if ($a->getAuth()) { //go to some where } else { $template->display("index.tpl"); } [/PHPCODE] Now, the I believe that the start() method of Auth (see $a->start() ) causes it to call loginForm (if not authenticated).... but when viewing the HTML output... the order of output is something like <form login> username: <input ..... > password: <input ..... > </form login> <html> <body> </body> </html> we know that is is not the proper way to write an HTML... what I want is to be able to control the showing of login form... by saving the form's HTML and assigning it to a Smarty template variable (index.tpl) so that it will be located within the <body> </body>... jun