Re: [SMARTY] Smarty book published & available

Joao Prado Maia wrote:
> Jochem,
> 
>> first off - congrats!  no doubt it will help to give Smarty
>> (a more|an even more) professional 'presence' :-)
>>
> 
> Thanks! I'm glad that the book is finally published and available to the 
> public.
> 
> 
>> secondly could you indicate how much detail the book contains on Smarty
>> caching? I ask because I have some very dynamic sites (with custom
>> plugins that retrieve their own data, multilanguage and heavy 
>> 'scriptside'
>> logic) that could do with [partial] caching but so far I have been unable
>> to figure out how to implement it without causing the output/dynamic-data
>> requirements of said sites to be broken - a book that detailed 
>> extreme/complex
>> smarty caching implementation might be just what I need.
>>
> 
> I guess it depends on what "extreme/complex smarty caching" means. I 
> wrote the chapter on caching and there is definetely a lot of content on 
> conditional caching as well as other features, but it still doesn't 
> matter much if I don't know exactly what you mean.

caching groups. (does that even exist or am I confused?)
[complex] conditional caching.
caching pages where parts of the page needs to stay completely
dynamic.

It's difficult to describe what I mean because of the fact that
I don't grok the smarty cache functionality - bit of a chicken 'n' egg
problem - although what you mention sounds like it could do me some good
to read....

thanks for the feedback.

> 
> --Joao
>