WP-Cache 2.0.17 Dynamic Capability Broken?
Posted October 27th, 2006 @ 02:55pm by Erik J. Barzeski
WP-Cache purports to support the ability to publish certain things dynamically (like my rotating header images), yet this functionality seems broken in version 2.0.17.
From the WP-Cache site:
<!--mclude file.php--> <?php include_once(ABSPATH . 'file.php'); ?> <!--/mclude-->
My own code (header_rotator.inc file):
function get_random_header_image()
{
$header_imgs[] = 'arnold_fuzzy';
$header_imgs[] = 'augustine';
:
return $header_imgs[rand(0, count($header_imgs)-1)];
}
<div id="headerimage">
<img src="/wp-content/themes/nslog/img/headers/<?=get_random_header_image();?>.jpg" height="189" width="760" alt="NSLog(); Header Image" />
</div>
header.php file:
<!-- mclude header_rotator.inc -->
<? include('header_rotator.inc'); ?>
<!-- /mclude -->
Result? The same image shows up constantly.
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Posted 27 Oct 2006 at 3:01pm #
Note: reloading works fine on this page because "wp-" is included in the URL.
Posted 27 Oct 2006 at 7:23pm #
Maybe your module is output cached?
Posted 27 Oct 2006 at 10:03pm #
I'm an idiot. Of course your module is being output cached -- that's what you were saying.
Looking at the source of this module and its preg's, I believe you need to remove the space between "--" and "mclude". So your include should be:
<!--mclude header_rotator.inc--><!--/mclude-->
See line 132 to 141 of wp-cache-phase2.php of WP-Cache.
Posted 27 Oct 2006 at 10:11pm #
WP needs comment preview capability.
What I tried to say was that you have a space after the XML comment but before the word "mclude". That needs to be removed for WP-Cache's regular expressions to work properly.
Posted 28 Oct 2006 at 9:51am #
I think I've got it working now. It required me to specify more of an absolute path to the script, even though the actual
includewas fine:<!--mclude /wp-content/themes/nslog/header_rotator.inc--><? include('header_rotator.inc'); ?>
<!--/mclude-->
The removal of the spaces helped as well. Thank you, EJ, for pointing that out.
P.S. WP has comment preview capability, I believe, at least as far as a Live Preview goes. That's just a little JS/HTML. I'll see if I can get that wired up, even though it's not the traditional style.
P.P.S. I also need to figure out how to remove WordPress's auto-formatting. Our double dashes were changed to em dashes. 🙁