[Solved] Clearing the site cache from within a snippet?

Is there any way to clear the site cache from within a snippet?

This would be a great thing for those who use both caching AND the NewsPublisher snippet.

The page the Newspublisher snippet resides on should not be cached. "Articles" it creates can be cached. At least I can’t think of any reason they can’t be.

I am talking about those of us whose menu and certain index pages are cached. Without the site cache being cleared they would not display the newly created page (even with the show in menu flag = 1).

clear the site cache from within a snippet

How can this be done?

Create a snippet that deletes the cache files from the assets/cache folder. The emptyCache() function from the manager/processors/cache_sync.class.processor.php file could be modified slightly to do the job; it even keeps track of how many and which files are deleted for making a report. Of special interest is the preg_match() line.

Or include your menu snippet so it won’t be cached: [!snippetName!]

Quote from: rthrash at Sep 11, 2005, 01:06 PM

Or include your menu snippet so it won’t be cached: [!snippetName!]

Yes but that would also mean alot of other snippets that index the news folder would need to be uncached and that would drastically slow down the site (I tied it [I have a slow host])

Not that you’ve asked a bad question, but if your host is so slow that having snippets uncached makes wait time unbearable, you would probably be better off with a new host. With today’s technology, caching snippets shouldn’t make a serious difference unless you have thousands of them on a page or something.

Just one mans opinion.

Thanks for your imput Jared.

I think xWisdom figured out how to clear the cache for the newspublisher snippet:
http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php/topic,920.msg5912.html#msg5912

In regard to the caching uncaching speed differance, when a page with about 5 snippets is cached its total php time (mysql will be 0 because of full caching) is about 0.1-0.3 seconds. With caching disabled pages take up to 3-5 seconds generation time.

better off with a new host

Wish I could switch but I prepaid..........

Quote from: Mark at Sep 12, 2005, 05:42 PM

...In regard to the caching uncaching speed differance, when a page with about 5 snippets is cached its total php time (mysql will be 0 because of full caching) is about 0.1-0.3 seconds. With caching disabled pages take up to 3-5 seconds generation time.

Well yeah. Then I’d be caching too! Glad you found a solution.