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Option to Disable Template Caching



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When changing the templates for pages, it is extremely annoying to have to manually delete the files from templates_c when making small iterative changes. The caching system currently isn't smart enough to generate new files.

There really should be an option to completely disable caching as this makes development take longer.

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Chris commented 5th April 17
Add this to your header.tpl and it will disable the cache

[co]
  • {php}
  • //disable in production for v 6+
  • $template->clear_compiled_tpl();
  • {/php}
    • [/co]
    Bogdan commented 16th January 15
    This should be included in the core functionality ... hooks are nice and all but its something that should be included....
    mbit commented 20th August 14
    Just use this hook to delete cache on every refresh:

    [co]
  • function deleteCache()
  • {
  • global $templates_compiledir;
  • $cacheFiles = glob($templates_compiledir.'*');
  • foreach($cacheFiles as $file){
  • if(is_file($file) && strpos($file,'index.php') == false)
  • unlink($file); // delete file
  • }
  • }
  • add_hook("ClientAreaPage",1,"deleteCache","");
    • [/co]
    SeanP commented 29th April 14
    Alan Tisdale wrote:I give up! I can't work with WHMCS when there's no option to disable the cache. Who can develop like this? It makes the whole development process impossible.
    It does make the development time a bit longer. Especially if you forget to delete the cache, and are pulling your hair out as to why a change, within your code, didn't have any effect. I typically have the templates_c folder loaded in WinSCP, and clear the files within it, before I test my code changes.
    Tisdale commented 29th April 14
    I give up! I can't work with WHMCS when there's no option to disable the cache. Who can develop like this? It makes the whole development process impossible.
    SeanP commented 21st April 14
    This needs to be an option for doing development. The ability to turn off template caching, while doing development within templates, would tremedously help productivity.