Smarty

[simplex]

Hi,

I have played around with caching a bit, and I have to say that I was surprised how simple and painless it was. with just a few lines of additional code, the massive smarty frontend was cached, with just a few small issues, that can be easily solved by a few more lines of code

My question is this: Having a cached smarty frontend is nice, however, in my case, all the PHP code which is needed for the frontend, is still executed. So as you can imagine, load time savings were not really there. What are the best practices to only execute the PHP code that is needed for the uncached stuff?

All I can think off is using isCached() and depending on the result, decide which php code to execute.

Am I on the right path with this, or are there better ways?

Cheers

[AnrDaemon]

That's basically the only way to do it.
Carefully inspect your code, group stuff that only calculate template variables, and wrap it into if(!isCached()) block.

[simplex]