Smarty

You mean variable scope is only limited with template hierarchy?

We want to use those variable at multiple places so if we go with this approach we have to call respective function at many times.
...

{function name=testing data=''}
{assign var=var_a value=$data scope="global"}
{/function}

{testing data=1}
1. {$var_a}

{testi ...

We tried with both the ways but no good luck.

Will you please do let us know how can we achieve this.

No any difference in result.

include inline with tpl file is working as expected but not with the string.

{include file="../../Common/generic_templates/sort_table_content.tpl" ...

I am trying to use include inline to parse the smarty string but it's not working as expected.

{$b = 'testing'}
{$a = '{$b}'}
{include file="string:{$a}" inline=true}

I can parse the ...