When the majority of your templates use the same headers and footers, it is common to split those out into their own templates and {include} them. But what if the header needs to have a different title, depending on what page you are coming from? You can pass the title to the header as an attribute when it is included.
Example 18-3. Passing the title variable to the header template mainpage.tpl - When the main page is drawn, the title of "Main Page" is passed to the header.tpl, and will subsequently be used as the title.
archives.tpl - When the archives page is drawn, the title will be "Archives". Notice in the archive example, we are using a variable from the archives_page.conf file instead of a hard coded variable.
header.tpl - Notice that "Smarty News" is printed if the $title variable is not set, using the default variable modifier.
footer.tpl
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