Turn off cache for specific items

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13 years 6 months ago #27455 by pshoeg

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Hi there,

Is it possible to turn off cache for specific items? I have a couple of pages where I'm fetching data from a JSON file, but I have to force-refresh before the changes take place.

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13 years 6 months ago #27457 by ggppdk

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I guess you don't mean caching done by joomla.

Is your data created by a field or is it code inside the item.php of your FLEXIcontent template?

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13 years 6 months ago #27466 by pshoeg

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I do it two ways:

1. Code inside a FlexiContent item. Simply JavaScript fetching data from a JSON file.
2. Code inside a FlexiContent module. Also JavaScript fetching data from a JSON file.

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13 years 6 months ago #27478 by ggppdk

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You use Javascript to fetch data ? this is done at the browser. why you want to turn off caching at the server?

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13 years 6 months ago #27479 by pshoeg

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It seems that Joomla/FlexiContent caches the content on the page, including the data I fetch via JS.

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13 years 6 months ago #27481 by ggppdk

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So is the problem the JS is fetching data that are a Joomla component view which is cached?

or is the problem that the JS code is using some variables that are created when FLEXIcontent item view is created, e.g. inside a FLEXIcontent item you have:

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echo "<script> var data_id='".$myvar."';</script>";

and you use this to pass information to the JS code?

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13 years 6 months ago #27482 by pshoeg

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The first problem — the JS is included in a module, that supposedly is cached.

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13 years 6 months ago #27485 by ggppdk

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So if your JS code does not use any data variable e.g. and ID created by a field in FLEXIcontent item view, why turning off cache will help?

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13 years 6 months ago #27531 by pshoeg

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I don't know — I was just wondering that since I load the JS inside a FlexiContent view it might be cached. But it sounds like it isn't.

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13 years 6 months ago #27532 by ggppdk

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do you have this online, and can you describe the steps of usig it?

i don't promise anything, just to take a quick look at,

The js code get the id / information of the data to retrieve from where?

via a cookie? via a form ?

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