Caching and variables.

Thursday 16 March 2006 8:26:55 am

Hi,

I want to enable cache to speed up site access. I'm quite a newbie whent it comes to enabling caching, but this is what I've done in override/site.ini.append.php:

[TemplateSettings]
TemplateCache=enabled
TemplateCompile=enabled
TemplateCompression=enabled
TemplateOptimization=enabled

[RegionalSettings]
TranslationCache=enabled

[ContentSettings]
ViewCaching=enabled
PreViewCache=disabled

Now I have some problems with accessing variables like $node.node_id, etc. When I enable caching with cache blocks, I get all kind of weird problems like images not being updated in a gallery before the cache expires. I read a forum post about using $module_result.content instead, but it's only available in pagelayout.tpl? I couldn't access this variable in any of my override templates.

Anyway, here is an example of a override template where I'm using a cache block.

{* beginning of template *}

{set-block scope=root variable=cache_ttl}0{/set-block}

{cache-block expiry=20 keys=$uri_string}
{* some code for a image gallery *}
{foreach $galleries as $m}
        {if or(eq($m.node_id, $node.node_id), eq($node.parent_node_id, $m.node_id))}
                <p class="redcolor"><a class="redcolor" href={$m.url_alias|ezurl}>{$m.name|wash|upcase}</a></p>
        {else}
                <p><a href={$m.url_alias|ezurl}>{$m.name|wash|upcase}</a></p>
        {/if}
{/foreach}


{/cache-block}

Now the big question here is if I'm doing this the right way. I've had a hard time gathering some scattered information about how to implement cache in eZ. I guess I just can't use cache-blocks everywhere, and have to test and try if it works in different settings?