Request: arrays in config files and/or variables export from included template

The site I'm working on should have a menu and a title on every page, and titles in menu and on pages should be the same. It's obvious, that I want to take that strings from the same array (associative, indexes are internal IDs). I can assign() it from the script, but I have two reasons to want array definition to be placed at template level: 1. I want my scripts to be language-independent 2. I want Smarty caches to be regenerated after changing menu strings It seems to me, the best place for the definition of such an array is a template config file, but I cannot see a way to define an array there. So, I need a way. Another way, I could write an external function to define that array in a template, but I want array definition to be separate from main templates, and I see that it becomes local and invisible for top-level template. So, I need an "export" template function or {include} parameter, or other way to pass a complex (non-scalar) variable to higher level template. With best regards, Konstantin A. Pelepelin