Modifications to templates not taking affect

jbrown2197 · Post by **jbrown2197** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 8:27 pm

I am making changes to the mainpage.tpl and when I refresh my browser nothing changed.
I found that if I modify the #@@@#%$#mainpage.tpl.php in the templates_c directory things change.
After doing some digging it looks like Testlink recompiles a tpl file, but how do you force it to recompile, or is there a way just to get it to use the mainpage.tpl?

After I initially installed Testlink I was able to see changes right away, I'm not sure what changed.
I'm using this with an IIS server, I'm not sure if that matters.

Post by **havlatm** » Thu Mar 20, 2008 2:37 pm

Delete templates_c directory if you modify templates. This behaves as cache.

jbrown2197 · Post by **jbrown2197** » Thu Mar 20, 2008 2:44 pm

Thanks. I did try that and then refreshed my browser, and it was just a blank page. How long does it take for the templates_c to recompile? Is there a way to force the recompile?

Post by **havlatm** » Fri Mar 21, 2008 8:32 am

iggy · Post by **iggy** » Fri Apr 11, 2008 5:49 pm

havlatm wrote:Yes.

What are the steps to force a recompile?

jbrown2197 · Post by **jbrown2197** » Fri Apr 11, 2008 7:39 pm

I found out how to do this.
You have to browse to third_party->smarty and open Smarty.class.php

In Smarty.class.php search for 'compile'.
Change the 'var $compile_check' to true
Change the 'var $force_compile' to true
and save the doc.

This is good when you're making changes, but when you are ready to use this for run time set both of these to FALSE and it will improve the speed of Testlink.
I hope that helps.[/quote]

iggy · Post by **iggy** » Fri Apr 11, 2008 7:43 pm

Awesome -- thanks for the info!

jbrown2197 · Post by **jbrown2197** » Fri Apr 11, 2008 7:55 pm

No problem, if you want more how-to for programming under smarty, there's plenty to read here: http://www.smarty.net/
and it's very useful info, saved me a lot of time.