How to disable Smarty caching in Prestashop?

It’s necessary for debug purpose. Also you need to disable any caching to improve debugging. After debugging you should revert config changes.

For PS 1.4-1.6: Go to the «Advanced Parameters / Performance» tab to disable Smarty caching.

Set «Force compilation» of «Template cache» group option and disable «Cache» option.

For PS1.2-1.3: Open the «/config/smarty.config.inc.php» file, and edit it to set properties as is shown:

$smarty->caching       = false;

$smarty->force_compile = true;

$smarty->compile_check = false;