Smarty

[ivoras]

I'm looking at a compiled template generated by Smarty 3 (b5) and on the top see a line invoking $_smarty_tpl->decodeProperties() and passing it what looks like serialized PHP data in a string. I don't know and don't care what exactly this data is, but wouldn't it make more sense to just save it in the template as a direct PHP array constructor code?

I.e. instead of decodeProperties('a:1:{s:15:"file_dependency";a:1{s:10:"F384501455"...') why not write out direct PHP code, which would in this case probably be something like decodeProperties(array(array('file_dependancy",array('F384501455')...))).

Wouldn't it be faster to process via PHPs compiler and also play nicely with precompilers/optimizers/code caches?

I'm not overly familiar with Smarty 3 so this might be completely justified

[U.Tews]

This has been changed already internally and will be part of the next update.