Smarty

[coptang]

Hi, I'm new to smarty but I've had a read of the docs and can't find an answer to my question:

My site header is very personalised and would require about 5 or 6 differnt var's passed to it. Do I have to do the following with each page template or is there an easier way?

{include file="header.tpl" var1=$var1 var2=$var2 var3=$var3 var4=$var4 var5=$var5}
page content, page content, page content, page content, page content, page content, page content, page content.
{include file="footer.tpl"}

[toma]

I prefer to assign page specific parameters before including the files:

{assign var="title" value="Page Title"}
{include file="header.tpl"}

[coptang]

been playing a bit more and I think I'm going to use 3 smarty objects/templates: header, content and footer then just render them 1 after the other

unless that's horribly inefficient?