What does this file do?

[knotty]

Seen the        templates_c        file in a number of programs, just wondering what it does?

Thanks...knotty

[Ted]

templates_c is where smarty stores it's compiled templates.  To make a long story short, when you send data off to smarty for processing, it takes that template and compiles it down to real php code.  Smarty then caches that template off in the templates_c dir so it's not doing the intensive process of creating php code out of templates on every page load.

If that makes any sense...

[knotty]

OK, thanks Ted, I got it. It's saving having to do it again.

knotty