Smarty

[ZeroFill]

hi, i'm sorry if this has already been discussed. my search didn't come up with anything specific to my question.

before i switched to smarty, i made the normal microtimes in both the header and footer.inc.php files then displayed the difference. is there a way to do this with smarty?

i know can do microtime at the beginning and end of every script but is there a better way of doing this, which also includes smarty compile time?

[edit]
strange. i can't change the topic. i forgot the question mark

[edit2]
n/m. i guess i can always make my own template function

[boots]

Hi Zerofill.

Reporting time from Smarty directly will ignore other things that take time--for example, the creation of your business objects, the smarty classes, application logic, db access...the list goes on.

If you do want to time blocks within Smarty, your idea of a template function is valid, though I suggest a block function. I wrote something like that which you may find of use: block function: timeblock.

[ZeroFill]

i made a quick hacked Template Function for anyone that might want or improve upon it

[php:1:3516362ac1]
<?php
/*
* Smarty plugin
* ----------------------------------------
* File: function.page_load.php
* Type: function
* Name: page_load
* Purpose: outputs the difference between ending microtime and beginning microtime
* Note: MUST $smarty->assign('start_load_time', $start_load_time) for it to work.
* ------------------------------------------
*/

function smarty_function_page_load($params, &$smarty)
{
$start_load_time = $smarty->get_template_vars('start_load_time');
if (empty($start_load_time))
{
$smarty->trigger_error("assign: missing 'start_load_time'");
return;
}
return $smarty->_get_microtime() - $start_load_time;
}
?> [/php:1:3516362ac1]

example