Smarty

terryjohnson · Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2004 5:21 pm Post subject: Precompiled templates

Is it possible to pre-compile templates?

I know this defeats some of the advantages of Smarty, but it would make it easier to operate on a production site where safe_mode is on, which is the case for the majority of PHP web hosts, and quite useful even when running a on dedicated box.

messju · Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2004 5:51 pm Post subject:

if you don't want to compile on a production-server you can set $smarty->compile_check to false and upload the contents of templates_c manually. this should work.

terryjohnson · Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2004 8:57 pm Post subject:

Turning off compile is a good feature, but what I was asking was whether it is possible to do something from the command prompt like:

[user lib]$ php Smarty_Compile.php ./templates/foo.tpl

so that the template can be coded, compiled and deployed without having to have an reasonable replica of the production environment to play with?

messju · Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2004 9:27 pm Post subject:

there is no public api to compile a template. the simplest way is to call $smarty->fetch($tpl) or $smarty->fetch($tpl, $cache_id, $compile_id).

terryjohnson · Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2004 5:09 pm Post subject:

OK I figured out how to do it by having a short php script in my development environment which can be passed template names as an argument: