Smarty

[Ahri]

I guess this has been asked before but I couldn't find anything on it despite searching about, so I'll attempt to butter you up in the hope of getting a reasonable answer I've successfuly integrated Smarty into a framework I'm working on, and am extremely pleased with the results thus far; the ability to not only cache a page but to have dynamic portions within this cache is great, not to mention the ease of scripting for it.

So anyway, my problem is this; I want to store a timestamp, or perhaps other variables in a cached template and then use these variables in a dynamic portion of the same template. Eg. I could store the current timestamp as some variable, and every time the page is viewed the dynamic part could output something like:

<!-- Template created 1086479930 seconds after the UNIX epoch began -->

So I tried this out;

[electr0n]

$smarty.now is already a timestamp which contains the seconds from the begin of the UNIX Time till now .

[Ahri]

[neildogg]

http://smarty.php.net/manual/en/caching.cacheable.php

The way I use this is that I cache one of the variables, specified in the fourth parameter. I then override it with a temporary parameter of another name. The function checks to see if the temporary parameter exists, and if it does not, it returns the cached one.

-Neil

[mohrt]

Another option is to have your dynamic logic grab the filemtime() from the cached file (time it was created/updated)