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I know php pretty well, though I am completely new to smarty. I seem to be have problems just doing something as simple as adding a file call into templates (ie: <?php require("path/to/blah.php"); ?>). Is the smarty engine parsing the php incorrectly? It seems as though that the php tag is not functioning as a script, but just as plain text. When I view source on the page that includes this php tag, it shows up as plain text in the source, but is not apparent on the web page itself.