Fully compile time includes

Hi,

I am writing templates that include lots of small standard .tpl files, all called
from a set of ''top level'' templates.
I am doing this for modularity & ease of maintaining consistency, I am not interested
in passing these .tpl files special variables[**]. Many of these are less than 10 lines long,
they are standard 'head', 'foot', 'standard_notices' & the such files.

What smarty does is to compile these includes to a $this->_smarty_include(blah, blah)
ie the top level template also on subsequent calls opens it, etc.

What I want to achieve is that the contents of these small files are physically put into
the compiled .php of the top level templates -- ie avoiding the extra work of opening the file.
Perhaps some option to {include} might allow this or another verb like {include_static} or
{include_paste} that just took the filename as an argument -- nothing else --
might be another way.

I have looked at the smarty code -- it doesn't seem to be structured in a way that would
make this easy ... unless someone is much smarter than I am (not at all difficult).

Is this something that could be put into a future version of Smary, or is there
already a way of achieving this ?

Thanks in advance.


[**] If I did want something: I would be happy to make it a global in the main
template.

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Alain Williams
Parliament Hill Computers Ltd.
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