Cache Buster

Developer

Focus Lab, LLC - Erik Reagan

3rd Party (Free)

392 downloads (last 90 days)

Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives

EE Version Support

ExpressionEngine 1.x
ExpressionEngine 2

Compatibility

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Updater
Multi Site Manager
Stand Alone Entry Form
Low Variables
Content Elements
Better Workflow
Matrix
Grid
Webservice
Publisher

Requirements

jQuery for the Control Panel

Add-On Type(s)

Plugin

Tags

javascript, assets, stylesheets, js, cache, css, buster, template, database

Using ExpressionEngine’s CSS template provides a nice cache buster string of the most recent time the template was saved to the database. This is quite handy but still requires EE to process the template. This plugin will take a file path and use PHP to check the modification time returning a cache busting string like ExpressionEngine’s. This allows you to serve flat files from your server without having ExpressionEngine’s template parser run through the code first. It is very simple to use.

Usage

There are 2 parameters. One is required and the other is optional.

{exp:cache_buster file="/css/style.css"}

This will return

/css/style.css?v=1266264101

Where “1266264101” is the UNIX timestamp of the last time /css/style.css was saved to the server.

You can change the separator between the file and the timestamp with the use of separator=”” in the tag.

{exp:cache_buster file="/css/style.css" separator="?"}

This will return

/css/style.css?1266264101

Download Cache Buster

EE Support	Downloads	Add-On Version	Release Date
2.2.0+	Download	1.1.1	May 27, 2013

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Project Source

This entry was created March 26, 2010, 7:25 am.
This entry was last updated December 3, 2014, 11:21 am.

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