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diff --git a/docs/cache.txt b/docs/cache.txt index e7e1cdd791..3318b2ad4a 100644 --- a/docs/cache.txt +++ b/docs/cache.txt @@ -336,6 +336,17 @@ template tag to uniquely identify the cache fragment:: It's perfectly fine to specify more than one argument to identify the fragment. Simply pass as many arguments to ``{% cache %}`` as you need. +The cache timeout can be a template variable, as long as the template variable +resolves to an integer value. For example, if the template variable +``my_timeout`` is set to the value ``600``, then the following two examples are +equivalent:: + + {% cache 600 sidebar %} ... {% endcache %} + {% cache my_timeout sidebar %} ... {% endcache %} + +This feature is useful in avoiding repetition in templates. You can set the +timeout in a variable, in one place, and just reuse that value. + The low-level cache API ======================= |