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This is the length of time in seconds that a template cache is valid. Once this time has expired, the cache will be regenerated.
$caching
must be turned on (either 1 or 2) for
$cache_lifetime
to have any purpose.
A $cache_lifetime
value of -1 will force the cache to never expire.
A value of 0 will cause
the cache to always regenerate (good for testing only, to disable caching
a more efficient method is to set $caching
= 0).
If you want to give certain templates their own cache lifetime, you could
do this by setting
$caching
= 2,
then set $cache_lifetime
to a unique value just
before calling display()
or fetch()
.
If
$force_compile
is
enabled, the cache files will be regenerated every time, effectively
disabling caching. You can clear all the cache files with the clear_all_cache()
function, or individual cache files (or groups) with the clear_cache()
function.