Smarty

[mikeken]

Hi, on my websites ppl can update there forms via a form. Lets put me as one of my viewers. I view my profile. It displays all the info about me that the database holds. I then click a link that takes me to a different page(dif template and php page.) In that form I update it and the form calls itself up. After I submit it it reloads the page and the same values are still there. Its a enctype/data form so I cannot refresh, I will just get a blank page but if I leave that page and come back everything is normal.

Also other pages where I get the information from the database I have to refresh those page before the info will update. Except, Im my form above, If I forward it to one of these pages usind header() It will have the right values in it. Please help. The most recent thread about cacheing didnt help I tried lots of thing like this:

[php:1:c295b398f6]
$smarty->force_recompile = TRUE;
$smarty->cache = 0;
$smarty->clear_all_cache(0);
$smarty->clear_compiled_tpl();
[/php:1:c295b398f6]

Whats going on?
If this is the way smarty works then I cant use it(which would be a shame) because my website is going to be a very very dynamic website.

--Mike

[messju]

- it's $smarty->force_compile
- it's $smarty->caching

do you have caching turned on on your forms-based pages?
did you read: http://smarty.php.net/manual/en/caching.multiple.caches.php ?

if you have caching turned on and don't use cache-ids your pages' output may never change before the cached templates expire.

check if your pages work with $smarty->caching=false.

if you didn't employ caching in the first place, i don't know what's going wrong with your setup, sorry.

[mikeken]

the weird thing is that

[php:1:6a272046be]var $caching = 0;[/php:1:6a272046be]

Should I continue on with everything else you said, try it out?

--Mike

[mikeken]

OK, I discovered something. After updating my page, and remember I have it set to not forward anywhere after it updates the database and all that other good stuff, I can click a link that goes to a page that will retrieves that data, and it will work, but if I type it in the address bar I have to refresh for the data to update. Do you know why this is, does this have something not to do with Smarty?

Thanks.

Also, I was actually thinking of switching to a different template engine because of this. So I went looking, I only found junk, I never realized smarty was "that" much better then the rest, All the other ones were especially more confusing to install. Anyways...

[boots]

@teknoeacid: I'm not sure I followed your problem exactly, but it could be that your browser is caching results.

Make sure you know where all the (likely) caches are in your delivery chain:

application specific (if any); smarty; php accelerator (if any); web server cache (if any); proxy cache(s) (if any); browser

Tell your browser (particularly IE) to ALWAYS check the source page for updates. This doesn't disable caching, it just forces the browser to see if its cache is valid or not.