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I made cache_disabled work

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    aesmith - enminc Reply #1, 12 years, 9 months ago
    Maybe BobRay has put this out to the world but I have not run across it anywhere.

    I am tired of battling both cache issues and [[!Include? ...]] tags for local development. Things are constantly cached when I don't want them to be and cache_disabled does not actually work in the core.

    CacheClear to the rescue.


    1. Download and install CacheClear
    2. Create Plugin
    3. Copy code below into plugin
    4. Set System Event to "OnWebPageComplete"
    5. Set System Setting cache_disabled = to Yes

    Now on the completion of every page request the cache is dumped

    <?php
if ($modx->context->key == 'mgr') return;

    if((boolean) $modx->getOption('cache_disabled',null,false)){
    $modx->runSnippet('CacheClear');
    }


    Now we can go back to using static elements in local dev without having to clear cache all the time. smiley
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      BobRay Reply #2, 12 years, 9 months ago
      Interesting idea. Thanks for posting it. smiley

      Do you mind if I make a blog post out of it? wink



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        aesmith - enminc Reply #3, 12 years, 9 months ago
        Not at all , please do.
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          BobRay Reply #4, 12 years, 9 months ago
          Thanks. BTW, I think that should be $modx->context->get('key'). wink

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            aesmith - enminc Reply #5, 12 years, 9 months ago
            If you are using this setup and also developing in Manager Only areas then you will want to make the following adjustments

            Add additional System Event to plugin

            "OnManagerPageInit" <!-- this will flush the cache on every manager request

            Also comment this out of the plugin

            //if ($modx->context->key == 'mgr') return;
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