What is Smarty?
Why use it?
Use Cases and Work Flow
Syntax Comparison
Template Inheritance
Best Practices
Crash Course
What is Smarty?
Why use it?
Use Cases and Work Flow
Syntax Comparison
Template Inheritance
Best Practices
Crash Course
Quick Install
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This tells Smarty whether or not to cache the output of the templates
to the
$cache_dir.
By default this is set to the constant Smarty::CACHING_OFF. If your templates consistently generate
the same content, it is advisable to turn on
$caching, as this may result in significant
performance gains.
You can also have multiple caches for the same template.
A constant value of Smarty::CACHING_LIFETIME_CURRENT or Smarty::CACHING_LIFETIME_SAVED enables caching.
A value of Smarty::CACHING_LIFETIME_CURRENT tells Smarty to use the current
$cache_lifetimevariable to determine if the cache has expired.A value of Smarty::CACHING_LIFETIME_SAVED tells Smarty to use the
$cache_lifetimevalue at the time the cache was generated. This way you can set the$cache_lifetimejust before fetching the template to have granular control over when that particular cache expires. See alsoisCached().If
$compile_checkis enabled, the cached content will be regenerated if any of the templates or config files that are part of this cache are changed.If
$force_compileis enabled, the cached content will always be regenerated.
See also
$cache_dir,
$cache_lifetime,
$cache_modified_check,
is_cached()
and the
caching section.