smarty/docs/en/programmers/caching/caching-cacheable.xml

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 <sect1 id="caching.cacheable">
  <title>Controlling Cacheability of Plugins' Output</title>
  <para>
   Since Smarty-2.6.0 plugins the cacheability of plugins can be declared
   when registering them. The third parameter to register_block,
   register_compiler_function and register_function is called
   <parameter>$cacheable</parameter> and defaults to true which is also
   the behaviour of plugins in Smarty versions before 2.6.0
  </para>

  <para>
   When registering a plugin with $cacheable=false the plugin is 
   called everytime the page is displayed, even if the page comes
   from the cache. The plugin function behaves a little like an
   <link linkend="plugins.inserts">insert</link> function.
  </para>

  <para>
   In contrast to <link linkend="language.function.insert">{insert}</link>
   the attributes to the plugins are not cached by default. They can be
   declared to be cached with the fourth parameter 
   <parameter>$cache_attrs</parameter>. <parameter>$cache_attrs</parameter>
   is an array of attribute-names that should be cached, so the 
   plugin-function get value as it was the time the page was written 
   to cache everytime it is fetched from the cache.
  </para>

  <example>
   <title>Preventing a plugin's output from being cached</title>
   <programlisting role="php">
<![CDATA[
<?php
require('Smarty.class.php');
$smarty = new Smarty;
$smarty->caching = true;

function remaining_seconds($params, &$smarty) {
    $remain = $params['endtime'] - time();
    if ($remain >=0)
        return $remain . " second(s)";
    else
        return "done";
}

$smarty->register_function('remaining', 'remaining_seconds', false, array('endtime'));

if (!$smarty->is_cached('index.tpl')) {
    // fetch $obj from db and assign...
    $smarty->assign_by_ref('obj', $obj);
}

$smarty->display('index.tpl');
?>
   </programlisting>
   <para>
    where index.tpl is:
   </para>
   <programlisting>
<![CDATA[
Time Remaining: {remain endtime=$obj->endtime}
]]>
   </programlisting>
   <para>
    The number of seconds till the endtime of $obj is reached changes on
    each display of the page, even if the page is cached. Since the 
    endtime attribute is cached the object only has to be pulled from the
    database when page is written to the cache but not on subsequent requests
    of the page.
   </para>
  </example>

  <example>
   <title>Preventing a whole passage of a template from being cached</title>
   <programlisting role="php">
<![CDATA[
index.php:

<?php
require('Smarty.class.php');
$smarty = new Smarty;
$smarty->caching = true;

function smarty_block_dynamic($param, $content, &$smarty) {
    return $content;
}
$smarty->register_block('dynamic', 'smarty_block_dynamic', false);

$smarty->display('index.tpl');
?>
]]>
   </programlisting>
   <para>
    where index.tpl is:
   </para>
   <programlisting>
<![CDATA[
Page created: {"0"|date_format:"%D %H:%M:%S"}

{dynamic}

Now is: {"0"|date_format:"%D %H:%M:%S"}

... do other stuff ...

{/dynamic}
]]>
   </programlisting>
  </example>
  
  <para>
   When reloading the page you will notice that both dates differ. One
   is "dynamic" one is "static". You can do everything between 
   {dynamic}...{/dynamic} and be sure it will not be cached like the rest
   of the page.
  </para>
  
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