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How to disable cache in volt when development

Hi all I use template engine, but when development cache has been create, i want to disable,



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You can set a config variable say "debug" and based on that compile the templates or not.

Have a look at this

https://github.com/phalcon/website/blob/master/app/var/bootstrap.php#L230

                        if ('1' != $config->application->debug) {
                            $voltOptions['compileAlways'] = true;
                        }

compileAlways for volt means no cache



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Thank you,I ask, how to display code as above



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I ran into a problem with this as well. Very ocassionally, Volt will fail to realize that a template file has changed, which can be frustrating in dev when you're changing things constantly. I solved it by adding this block to my service definition.


/**
 * Clear out the Volt cache dir on every request in debug mode.
 *
 * Volt appears to have no capacity to compile itself to memory; it always
 * needs to write its output to file and sometimes the engine doesn't
 * realize that a template has changed, so it doesn't re-compile it.
 */
if ($config->application->debugMode) {
  array_map('unlink', glob($config->application->cacheDir . 'volt/*.php'));
  $volt->setOptions(array(
    'compileAlways' => TRUE,
  ));
}


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edited Feb '18

The accepted answer is great, I am just using bool for my config, as perhaps many of you are - explicit / positive


$volt = new VoltEngine($view, $this);

$voltOptions = [
  'compiledPath' => $config->application->cacheDir . 'volt/',
  'compiledSeparator' => '_'
];

if ($config->application->debug === true) {
    $voltOptions['compileAlways'] = true;
}

$volt->setOptions($voltOptions);