Templating in Smarty
You can also include other smarty template files in one smarty template. This brings the use of template function available in Smarty.
You may want to make a constant header and footer for your entire website. For this purpose, you can use the ‘include’ tag. Include tags are used for including other templates in the current template. Any variables available in the current template are also available within the included template. The include tag must have the attribute “file”, which contains the template resource path.
You can also pass variables to included templates as attributes. Attribute variables override current template variables. In our case, the ‘title’ variable is passed to the included template ‘header.tpl’. It the ‘title’ variable is not passed in the included template ‘header.tpl’ then the default value of the title assigned in ‘header.tpl’ will be printed.
We have included header.tpl and footer.tpl in the index.tpl file. The header.tpl file contains title and banner text. The footer.tpl file contains copyright information. This information is constant over the entire website. So, it would be easy to modify the header and footer content if we include these files in every individual template.
index.tpl
{include file="header.tpl" title="Homepage"}</p>
The author of this tutorial:<br/><br/>
Name: {$name} <br/>
Address: {$address} <br/>
Date: {$smarty.now|date_format:"%Y-%m-%d"} <br/></p>
{include file="footer.tpl"}
header.tpl
<html><head>
<title> {$title|default:"no title"} </title>
</head>
<body>
<h2>Welcome to my site</h2>
footer.tpl
<br/> Copyright © Mukesh Chapagain </body></p> </html>
Note: I have not included Smarty library files in this zip file. You can download the Smarty library files from http://smarty.php.net/download.php or directly from http://chapagain.googlecode.com/files/smarty.zip
From Mukesh Chapagain's Blog, post Templating in Smarty
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