Smarty

[Hichhiker]

Just for my own education, what is a difference between Compile and Cache in Smarty?

I just wrote an app that uses smarty as frontend and when I went to put it on production box, I turned on caching - thinking it needs to be on .... Nothing happened. Well, I noticed that for dev purposes I turned on "force recompile" - turned that off and voila - all sorts of things start to act strange - I am seeing other users pages as if the app is jumping sessions and other fun stuff.

After some playing with it, I left the force_compile on and turned off caching and things more or less fixed themselves.

So from this I am making following assumptions:

Compile process converts TPL to PHP

Cache process caches the OUTPUT of the PHP (i.e. final generated page) and stores that

Am I right on this? And if so, is there a real world case where caching for a db backed app is useful?

Thanks

-HH

[messju]