Re: [SMARTY] smarty and GNU gettext

On 30 May 2006, at 15:50, D_C wrote:

> mean that smarty cannot pre-compile the templates? (I'm not exactly
> clear how all that works, so please bear with me! I think that the
> template itself is converted to a php file, then each time a page is
> displayed that uses it, things go a little quicker. but if there is an
> area where possibly non-static content might be passing through a
> function, this would mean the conversion to php also would happen
> every time?)

You are confusing compiled templates and cached output. Smarty does a  
one-time conversion of your template syntax into straight PHP and  
keeps it in ./templates_c. This 'compiled' template is just regular  
PHP that gets run like any other script, and as such can have  
whatever dynamic content you like. The next step is to cache output  
(in ./cache) from the compiled script, which smarty does if you turn  
caching on ($smarty->caching = 1). This output is of course  
completely static, but it has almost zero overhead to deliver. Smarty  
can mix cached and uncached elements within a page (by including sub- 
templates that are cached within ones that are not, see $smarty- 
 >caching = 2 in the docs too), so just because one part of your page  
is dynamic doesn't mean you have to lose out on caching altogether.

That clearer?

Marcus
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