Globally turn off caching

One of my clients has chosen a *terrible* host, and I’ve had nothing but problems. Unfortunately, looks like I’m stuck with the host, however.

The hosting company seems to be constantly messing with php, and about once a week the site throws parsing errors. If I refresh the site, it’s okay again...so it has to do with reading pages that were cached before their latest php change.

My question is, how can I globally turn off caching? (Or, do I need to go into individual documents and uncheck the caching property.)

Thanks,
Duane

You’ll need to turn it off on the individual pages. You should probably also turn off the default for caching in the configuration for convenience for any new pages. The Doc Manager in 095 will make mass changes to pages a fast and nearly pain-free process.

Thanks Ryan!

You can use a Plugin to switch off the cache site wide:

1. Create a new plugin, name it DisableCache or whatever you want.
2. Enter the code:

$modx->documentObject[’cacheable’] = 0;

3. On the System Events tab, check the OnLoadWebDocument
4. Save it.
5. Refresh the site.

It will disable the cache all over the site no matter document caching is enabled in each document or not, this will save your time changing each documents caching settings and when you switch your host which I personally suggest , you wont have to re-enable the caching on every document, instead just disable the plugin.

Hope it helps

regards.

zi

Very cool Zi, thanks.

Ditto, great tip, might be a good idea to post this in the tips and tricks forum

Great tool during site development! Might help eliminate a lot of headaches.

wait .. wait! Thanks to Raymond for nice plugin actually.

regards.

zi

I’m looking at the cache toggle in the Doc Manager bundled with Evolution 1.0.3 but it doesn’t seem to be there. is this an exclusive feature only to 0.9.5? If anyone can tell me where I can find this switch, that would save me a whole lot of trouble. Thanks guys!

Cheers,
L

It’s in the configuration; it sets the default for resource caching to be off. The checkbox will be unchecked. This does not prevent the site cache, though; only individual page caching.