Smarty

[CrazyTemplate]

I'm using Smarty 3.1.8 and set the following parameters to enable caching:

[CrazyTemplate]

just for reference, I've setup my site as follows:

[U.Tews]

Note that after you have changed your cache_lifetime existing cache files will get the new time only when their old life time has expired.

[CrazyTemplate]

I only set the lifetime once, there is no "old" or "new".

[U.Tews]

The cache file must have been created with a cache lifetime of 3600.

If you modify the value in your script you will see it in the cache file only if the old life time has expired and the cache file was renewed.

[CrazyTemplate]

Am I talking in a foreign language? it seems like nobody understands what I said.

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THERE IS NO 3600 LIFETIME ANYWHERE IN MY SCRIPT
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[mohrt]

[CrazyTemplate]

Of course I've cleared the entire cache, even made sure the directories cache and template_c where both completely empty.

No matter what I do, the cache files always contain the lifetime 3600, as if the $smarty->setCacheLifetime(14400); function is not there.

I tried to switch between Smarty::CACHING_LIFETIME_SAVED and Smarty::CACHING_LIFETIME_CURRENT as well.

I also change the order of calling the functions, like:

$smarty->setCaching(Smarty::CACHING_LIFETIME_SAVED);
$smarty->setCacheLifetime(14400);

and

$smarty->setCacheLifetime(14400);
$smarty->setCaching(Smarty::CACHING_LIFETIME_SAVED);

but nothing made a difference, all my cache files are generated with 3600 lifetime in them.

[U.Tews]

Can you add a
var_dump($smarty);
just before the isCached() call and look for the value of the $cache_lifetime property.

The value for the cache file is copied from there.

I have no explaination for the behaviour at your place.
It does work in all tests....

[CrazyTemplate]

var_dump gives me the following:

["cache_lifetime"]=>
int(14400)

but the cache file still has:

'cache_lifetime' => 3600,

[U.Tews]

This is really strange.

A value of 3600 is used only as default value of cache_lifetime, which is replaced by your custom value of 14400 as your var_dump() shows.

Is there any other usage of the $smarty object after $smarty = new Smarty(); and before you set the cache lifetime?

Run the demo in the demo folder (index.php) ; Does it show same behaviour?

[CrazyTemplate]

Right now I'm testing the various {insert} blocks and the smarty plugins that we are using, one by one, to see if something tries to set the lifetime again.

I haven't found anything so far, and even a simple grep can't find anything that has 3600 in it.

[U.Tews]

Do you create somewhere in the plugins or inserts another instance of the Smarty object?

Could there be another call of template.html at another place as the main script?