preventing a Smarty 2 template from being cached/compiled

Question

I have an issue with Smarty 2.6.9 caching, where I have a 2 templates called confirmation.tpl which are both stored in different directories in my codebase.

However, when they are compiled they are compiled in a /cache/gb/ directory. For these two templates only I would like to prevent the compiling, and as such I have attempted to use the force_compile member variable, however this is having no effect at all and the template is consistently cached.

The problem that this is presenting is that both confirmation.tpl templates are being called (by separate code) on the same page, so one template is being used for both and is causing me problems.

Is there a way that I can prevent this template from being compiled and cached in this way?

I am passing a flag through to set "no_compile" for the "confirmation.tpl" template ONLY.

    $this->obj = new Smarty;
    $this->obj->caching = false;
    $this->obj->cache_lifetime = 10; 
    $this->obj->compile_check = true;
    $this->obj->template_dir = $this->tpl_path;

    if ($this->no_compile) {
        $this->obj->force_compile = false;
        $this->obj->compile_check = false;
    }

Answer 1

You can use different $compile_id settings in display/fetch to get different physical files on disk (although I think Smarty should handle this automagically for you depending on the path). compile_id can also be set for {include} statements.

I'm not sure what the code you've pasted implies, but you will want to turn on force_compile to make Smarty regenerate the template each time it is shown (it's false by default).