Smarty

[s2xi]

Is there a way to have Smarty parse newly introduced variables coming from a 3rd source .tpl?

this is my set up

$module = $s->fetch($fetch);
$s->assign($m['module_folder_name']."_module", $module);

in the $fetch.tpl I have a smarty variable called {$search_module}

My problem is that i can't figure out how to get smarty to see the new variable.

if I do $smarty->fetch("string:".$fetch) I'll just get a string of the path the .tpl is located in.