<dl class="panel_menu">
   {foreach item=aCategory from=$categories}
   <dt>{capture assign="cat_id"}{$aCategory.name}{/capture}<a href="{$smarty.server.PHP_SELF|addQueryString:"action=viewCategory&fCategory=$cat_id"}">{$aCategory.title}</a></dt>
   <dd class="descriptiveText">{$aCategory.description}</dd>
   {/foreach}
</dl>