Class: Generalized CachedTemplate class

A generalized parsed template caching mechanism, that can work with a variety of existing template classes.

The latest version can always be found at the CachedTemplate class site, there you can download also all the examples with their respective include files and templates.

New version 1.1 - includes support for PHPLIB's Template class and the use of GET query string in the document caching
New version 1.2 - Added a more general way of dealing with variables that the user may want to be used in writing/reading/validating cached documents, also added support for external data validation (using a timestamp or md5 hash)
New version 1.2.1 - Bug fix in the read_from_cache, which appeared when using use_get or use_vars w/ the "in_name" option
New version 1.2.2 - typo fix in the $release var, affected old version of PHP3; fixed typos in documentation
New version 1.3(unreleased) - added support for a file locking mechanism to
avoid race conditions
New version 1.4 - support for reading from a cached file, useful when doing a
partial caching of content (see partial_caching.php for an example)

A class I wrote that originated the idea for the one here. That one was designed to work only with the FastTemplate class and does not contain the enhancements in the one here.

Distribution site for the CachedTemplate class and associated source (all examples, templates, include files, etc.)

CDI's Class

Herman's class

PHPLIB package including a Template class

Stefan's class

Richard's class

Barnabas' class

Class documentation

The CachedTemplate class (version 1.4)

Template Adaptor class for FastTemplate

Template Adaptor for HTML Template class

Adaptor class for PHPLIB's Template class

Template adaptor for the QuickTemplate class

Template adaptor for Richard's Template class

Template adaptor for the XTemplate class

example of using external data validation using an md5 hash

Example of external data validation using data timestamp

Example using the FastTemplate class

Example using HTML Template class

Example of using get_from_cache to implement partial caching

Example using the PHPLIB'x Template class

Use by phplibtemplate_example.php

used by phplibtemplate_example.php

Example using the QuickTemplate class

Example using Richard's Template class

data file used by the examples datavalid_example[12].php

Example of using the use_get() method w/ the default option

Example of using the use_get() method w/ the "store" option

example of the user_vars() method

Example using the XTemplate class