Smarty

[CrazyTemplate]

I create various products and cache them with:

smarty->isCached("product.html", "product|".$product->id)

But when I try to clear their cache, it doesn't clear anything:

$smarty->clearCache("product.html", "product|".$product->id);

All files are still there, page is still showing the old content. The only way that I've found to clear the cache, is to delete the cache files myself.

Is this a bug or am I doing something terribly wrong?

Thank you.

[U.Tews]

isCached() does check if a valid cache file does exists or not. It does not create a cache file.

Cache files are created and later called for display with the display() or fetch() calls. They are created with the cache_id specified in display() or fetch(). Did you do that?

[CrazyTemplate]

I copy/pasted only the first part. My overal logic is like this:

- check isCached()
- if false then load data from database to fill html parts
- else if true then continue
- call display() to show html template

My display() command looks like:

$smarty->display('product.html', "product|".$product->id);

I still don't understand why clearing the cache does not work.

I checked the cache files, they are correctly named like "product^1234^xyxrandomchars.product.html.php"

[CrazyTemplate]

Could it be that I load Smarty from different directory locations?

the site runs like: domain.com/product.php
which loads Smarty with:
$smarty = new Smarty();
$smarty->setTemplateDir(array('./templates', './templatesextra'));

but the admin interface that runs the clearCache() is like: domain.com/cms/cache-control.php
which loads Smarty with:
$smarty = new Smarty();
$smarty->setTemplateDir(array('../templates', '../templatesextra'));

but I don't receive any errors...

[U.Tews]

That's the problem. Smarty does encode folder information into the file name that it can handle templates with same name but from different folders. Now in your case the folder names are not identical. It should work if you use absolute path.

like realpath('./templates') and realpath('../templates')