Optimizing performance for mass-includes + Code

Hi, I found out that mass including is very slow using php in general, e.g. {foreach from=$temp_table.fields key=curr_id item=item}

     {include file="asset_functions.tpl" section="item_fields"}

{/foreach} {foreach from=$temp_table.fields key=curr_id item=item}

     {include file="asset_functions.tpl" section="item_data"}

{/foreach} this is much slower than including the code directly between the foreach statements. My Solution: (based on smarty 2.6.2) -- code can be copied without copyright hint (increases performance with complexity of n depending on the number of n foreach iterations) I create a prefilter : The filter takes a look at the template and replaces all includes with the code directly (if the replaced code also has includes it works recursively) $smarty->register_prefilter("modify_includes"); function replace_file($match) { global $smarty; // get the code from the included file if (isset($match[1]) and $match[1]!="") $result = modify_includes($smarty->_read_file($smarty->template_dir."/".$match[1]),$smarty); // map the assigned variables (using include file="" var1="value1") to assign if (isset($match[2]) and $match[2]!="") { while (preg_match("|(.*?)=\"(.*?)\"|i",$match[2],$var)) {

     $match[2] = str_replace($var[0],"",$match[2]);
     if (count($var)==3) {
       $result = "{assign var=\"".trim($var[1])."\" value=\"".$var[2]."\"}\n".$result;
     }

} } return $result; } function modify_includes($tpl_source, &$smarty) { $tpl_source = preg_replace_callback("|{include file=\"(.*?)\"(.*?)}|im","replace_file",$tpl_source); return $tpl_source; } bye tom