Question

I want to iterate thru single array and disable caching only for some elements.
So my idea was to keep key and get element by key in nocache section. Unfortunatelly i haven’t found any possibility to:

assign cached $rec@key in nocache section,

or keep variable key definition in cached section.

Is there any way (without smarty code modification) to do it ?
here my test.tpl:

{foreach $array as $rec}
  {if $rec.dynamic}
    {assign var="key" value=$rec@key} 
    {nocache}
      {$array[$key].text}
    {/nocache}  
  {else}
    {$rec.text}
  {/if}
{/foreach}

and test.php:

<?php 
include_once 'libs/Smarty.class.php';
$smarty=new smarty();
$smarty->caching=1;
$smarty->assign('array',array(
            'r1'=>array('dynamic'=>true,'text'=>'dynamic'),
            'r2'=>array('dynamic'=>false,'text'=>'static')
          ));
$smarty->display('test.tpl');

(of course i will use it for much more complicated things than text display:) )
I tried lot of tricks and by myself i think it is not possible, please tell me i am wrong 🙂

Answer 1

What you are trying to accomplish is, as of Smarty 3.1.x, not possible. With 3.2 Smarty will allow you to “export” values into a {nocache} section to ensure they’re available when the template is re-executed.

Until 3.2 is released (don’t ask for a date, I don’t know) you may be able to do this yourself using a compiler function.