Posted by niles on 10/04/77 11:13

Hello Smarty Users,

I'm a recent convert to the world of Smarty, and I'm in the process of
converting my company website to Smarty. I haven't ran into a problem I
couldn't resolve with either google or the documentation until now. One
of the reasons I'm moving to Smarty is to take advantage of the caching
features. For my current site, I use a cron script combined with php to
run fairly extensive stats and dump the html output into a mysql blob
table. When the user goes to see their stats, php displays the html
content in the database. Based on the users details (sales & downline)
the php process can take close to 10 minutes.
I've already rewritten this in Smarty, and got the process time down to
at most 4 minutes. Instead of witting out html into a database, I'm
using php & curl to access the site (logged in as each user, one at a
time) and allowing Smarty to create the cache file. This works great
for all but the longest queries, where it just dies without any error. I
get nothing!

For example, running my php/curl script for the longest process takes
about 4 minutes when I have caching disabled, and it runs great.

root@asterisk:/home/bittersw/public_html/includes# ./populate_cache.php
13:33:38
sucess!
13:37:22

when I enable caching, the same script runs for 5 minutes and then gives
no output.
root@asterisk:/home/bittersw/public_html/includes# ./populate_cache.php
13:38:19
13:43:20

5 minutes give or take a couple of seconds every time. This tells me
something is timing out, but I can't
find a setting anywhere in Smarty to match this.
I'm guessing the longer processing time is due to some additional
overhead from enabling caching. ??

Thanks for any assistance
Niles

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