Re: [SMARTY-DEV] current vs past version

On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 06:30:38PM -0700, Dennis Gearon wrote: > I'm using an older version 2.4.2 > > I have 'caching' disabled, > And even if I set 'force_compile', smarty still writes the cache to disk. > Why? you mean "compiling". "caching" is something different in smarty lingo. > What is the point? smarty uses php's include() to render the template (when doing display() or fetch() ) > My reason for wanting to do this is that I don't yet have permissions set > up for smarty to write to a directory, since I'm on a shared host, just > haven't asked the sysop. then make your host provide you a directory for it. > There might even be applications that the developer doesn't want the time > it takes to write to the disk, but is willing to take the hit for compiling > everytime. this makes only sense for stuff displayed a few times. smarty is designed for rendering *templates*, this means for stuff displayed many times. > Now the part concerning the current/future version. Does it/is is planned > to NOT write the disk if not caching? to my knowledge: no, this is not planned. the discussion comes up every few month. a related faq entry is: http://smarty.incutio.com/?page=SmartyFrequentlyAskedQuestions#project-4 greetings messju