Template developer life saver: easyadmin updated

Saturday 18 November 2006 1:27:47 am

Hi all,

As most of you when developping templates, I spend half of my time clearing cache and waiting on the page to load (the other half being filled with questions like: why on hell is that sooo slow).

I've updated easyadmin on pubsvn and there http://ez.no/community/contribs/import_export to add a new feature to clear the cache of only one node.

How is that going to make you feel better when modifying templates ?

When you change a template, you have to clear the cache and redisplay your page to see the result.

Dead slow, no fun.

Once you've added easyadmin as an extension, add (somewhere in your pagelayout, in the footer for instance)

{include uri="design:easyadmin/clear.tpl"}

Then you have a "Refresh this page" link. You clic on it, the page is redisplayed after having cleared the cache (of only the current node and keeps the others unharmed).

Tip to make it even easier: it has an accesskey of R, meaning that if you type alt+R it is going to redisplay your page taking into account the new templates.

Life is great again, tell to your one that you love her/him.

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Monday 20 November 2006 12:27:21 am

Hi,

Yes I was aware of it, but didn't know it was backported, thanks for the info

I've tried it on a 3.8, and it worked fine when compiling template, but didn't without compilation. Do you compile your templates during the dev ?

I find faster to turn it off , as :
1) the error/warning messages are usually more meaningful
2) it's faster to generate a page (the first time, but you don't have a lot of traffic on dev websites ;)

That's my setting:

[TemplateSettings]
ShowXHTMLCode=disabled
Debug=enabled
TemplateCompile=disabled
ShowUsedTemplates=enabled

You still benefit from the content cache (hence the need to clear the cache), but the pages are faster to generate the first time.

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Wednesday 13 December 2006 2:20:27 am

Hi,

Have you tried on 3.8 ? Don't see any reason why it wouldn't work.

Could you report if something doesn't work ?

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Wednesday 13 December 2006 3:36:31 am

Oops, didn't svn add it

if you use svn: svn update will make it.

If you don't, the easiest is to create
extension/easyadmin/design/standard/templates/easyadmin/clear.tpl

With :

{if is_set($module_result.node_id)}
<a href='/easyadmin/clear/{$module_result.node_id}' class='clear' accesskey='r'>Refresh this page</a>
{/if}

in it

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Wednesday 13 December 2006 8:06:10 am

What's the url ? you see

The normal behaviour is to clear the cache, then goes back to the page (if I remember correctly using the referer).

Don't you have any special param to handle the referer or something ?

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Wednesday 13 December 2006 11:22:48 am

Well, don't know why it doesn't come back. Could you have a look at

extension/easyadmin/modules/easyadmin/clear.php

echo $_SERVER["HTTP_REFERER"];

does it print something ?

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Thursday 14 December 2006 12:55:30 am

It indeed explains

I strongly suggest you to use svn if this isn't the case.
Otherwise, you can download the file from there:

http://pubsvn.ez.no/viewcvs/community/trunk/extension/easyadmin/modules/easyadmin/

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Thursday 14 December 2006 2:04:38 am

Hi Xavier,

Just wondering if the code can be refactored a bit into separate classes which then allows for use as operators and so on?

Paul