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sideshow · Smarty n00b Joined: 13 Aug 2003 Posts: 2

What is the difference between the two? As far as I can tell they are the same thing.

Also, I have a website where my users can choose different templates for their part of the site, I have a central template directory and each user has it's own cache, and template_c directoy. Right now I have cache off but if the user changes templates Smarty shows the old template, unless I go and delete the contents of template_c. Do I need to delete the contents of template_c everytime a user changes templates?

AZTEK · Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2003 2:57 am Post subject:

Ok look at it this way you have your templates in your templates folder these are in the smarty format. Now when you display() a template it cant just get show it has to get converted into something PHP can use so its compiled. Now to save time a template is compiled once and stuck in the template_c folder that way its only done when the template is changed. This compiled file (look at one some time) still has variables where your assigns will go in, and calls to php functions where the modifiers, etc are. A cached output is what is sent to your browser this is what a template looks like after the assigns filled in, run through the modifiers, blocks, functions, etc.
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sideshow · Smarty n00b Joined: 13 Aug 2003 Posts: 2

Ahh, I think the problem is that every template has a file named home.tpl. Would that make Smarty think that every home.tpl was the same file?

AZTEK · Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2003 3:10 am Post subject:

It might if they share a common compiled dir
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