getResources and custom caching settings for random selections

Hi,

I have a site where I am using getResources to pull some content into view. I am using RAND to make the items pulled random, currently using the snippet uncached e.g. [[!getResources]], so with every page refresh, a new random set of items are displayed... Great... But....

Is it possible to adapt getResources to set the caching, so that within a session visit, that the RAND call only happens once - e.g. so if I refresh the page, after the first page load, the items remain the same....? Likewise, within the same browsing session, if I move onto another page, then come back to the page where we have the getResources code call - that again, we don't get another random bunch of items, instead, we just render what the first code call got? THEN... on a different session, we make the random call once more to pick the selection for the new session...

Is this possible?

Any ideas how????


Cheers,

dubbs.

maybe you could take the Session - id or store another random value into the current Session
And take that value as a scriptProperty for getCache.
Then wrap the getResources - call with getCache.

Quote from: Bruno17 at Nov 16, 2015, 09:41 AM

maybe you could take the Session - id or store another random value into the current Session
And take that value as a scriptProperty for getCache.
Then wrap the getResources - call with getCache.

Thanks Bruno... will have a look into that idea!

Quote from: Bruno17 at Nov 16, 2015, 09:41 AM

maybe you could take the Session - id or store another random value into the current Session
And take that value as a scriptProperty for getCache.
Then wrap the getResources - call with getCache.

Bruno,

Any chance of a bit of assistance on this? I have the PHP in a snippet to get the users session ID, I have getCache working and integrated into my getResources call, but not sure on how to hook up the two...???

I think just adding that as a additional scriptProperty to getCache could work



This should create a different cache-file for each different SessionID
As far, as I know out of my head, getCache uses its properties and the REQUEST to build the hashed cache-filenames

Quote from: Bruno17 at Nov 16, 2015, 03:28 PM

I think just adding that as a additional scriptProperty to getCache could work

[[!getCache?
here go all your properties 

&dummyproperty=`[[!getSessionID]]`
]]

This should create a different cache-file for each different SessionID
As far, as I know out of my head, getCache uses its properties and the REQUEST to build the hashed cache-filenames

Thanks - so what PHP is in the getSessionID Snippet then? And where you have called the property "dummyproperty" should I be calling that something else? I am not sure I follow the logic here... sorry!

UPDATE... I don't follow the logic, but it appears to work nonetheless! Thanks Bruno!!!! [ed. note: dubbs last edited this post 10 years, 11 months ago.]