Smarty

[glennj]

I've extented the Smarty 3 class and implemented a database driven version of the system which works fine and was nice and easy to achieve.

However, using this method the system will check the database for a timestamp on every request. I would like to avoid this

The system I am developing has an administration system where the templates are edited, so therefore the system knows when a template is updated and shouldn't really need to check on each page load.

What I would like to be able to do is recompile the Smarty template when a user saves a new version and avoid the timestamp check on each request. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to achieve this?

Thanks

[glennj]

I've worked out a solution I think.

When updating a template in my database (via the admin system) I'll call the following to force the refresh.

$smarty->utility->clearCompiledTemplate();


And then in the function that gets the timestamp from the DB, I'll ignore the database and simply return the same static number each time, forcing the system to never update or make a DB call.