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smarty_user
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 11, 2003 7:25 pm    Post subject: {dynamic} block function Reply with quote

I used the sample code which describes how to create a block function to delimit parts of a page that change dynamically. After setting caching to true, the:

return $content;

is not honored, but rather a cached version of the page is rendered. To better envision this, imagine a list of members of an organization, sorted alphabetically and yanked out of a database. The header and footer material stays the same, but the {section}{/section} will always be dynamic (side question: why is this tag cacheable?}.

Any thoughts as to why the page is always rendered from cache even though it's enclosed in the {dynamic}{/dynamic} block?

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PostPosted: Fri Sep 12, 2003 7:35 am    Post subject: Re: {dynamic} block function Reply with quote

you use Smarty cvs (recommended) or Smarty 2.6.0-RC1? (this feature is not available in Smarty-2.5.0)
you registered the {dynamic}-function explicicitely with $cacheable=false?

smarty_user wrote:
(side question: why is this tag cacheable?}.


that's controlled by the third parameter of register_block().

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PostPosted: Sun Sep 14, 2003 9:43 pm    Post subject: Re: {dynamic} block function Reply with quote

messju wrote:
you use Smarty cvs (recommended) or Smarty 2.6.0-RC1? (this feature is not available in Smarty-2.5.0)
you registered the {dynamic}-function explicicitely with $cacheable=false?


Seems to work with 2.6.0 RC1

smarty_user wrote:
(side question: why is this tag cacheable?}.


messju wrote:
that's controlled by the third parameter of register_block().


Wouldn't the expected behavior of a repeating section be to generate different information on different pages? That begs the question, why make {section} cacheable by default?
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 14, 2003 10:26 pm    Post subject: Re: {dynamic} block function Reply with quote

smarty_user wrote:
Wouldn't the expected behavior of a repeating section be to generate different information on different pages? That begs the question, why make {section} cacheable by default?

Smarty caches based on parameters you decide in your application--whether or not something displayed on two different pages comes from the same cache or from different caches is under your control, not Smarty's. So while you may indeed want different information on different pages, it is up to you to tell Smarty to treat different template calls as "different" pages, and you do this by using multiple cache id's.

You have a use pattern that suggests a dynamic section, but I don't see that as implying {section} itself--or any other tag--should be non-caching by default. The current behaviour is the expected behaviour.

I have to admit, though, keeping clear the differences between compilations, caches, templates and pages is not always easy Wink.

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