Re: [SMARTY-DEV] Templates not getting recompiled

Does this behavior sound like it would be a problem for any situation? On Mon, 2002-10-28 at 22:42, Peter Bowen wrote: > I've been using smarty for a few months, and have found it to work > really well. However, I have seen a situation where a template is > updated, yet smarty doesn't detect the change and recompile it. > > After some research, it turns out the problem is that smarty compares > the template's mtime to the compiled template's mtime. This works, as > long at the updated template has a newer mtime than the compiled > version. This assumes that every time a template is updated, its mtime > changes to the current time. Unfortunately, in our case, this isn't > always true. > > Our development group writes the software and packages it using RPM. > Then QA tests it and finally production updates the public servers. > When the packages are installed, the files have the mtime of when the > developers last changed the templates, not when they were installed on > the public servers. This occasionally results in the template mtime > being older than the latest compile mtime. > > The attached patch fixes this by setting the mtime of the compiled > version to the mtime of the original file. > > Thanks. > Peter > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > -- > Smarty Development Mailing List (http://smarty.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- Monte Ohrt <monte@ispi.net>