Nice! Never used this until now.

It depends on what you use as your frontpage. If you edit the top item in your main menu you can see the link to com_frontpage. Are you using some SEF extension? Could you give the URL of your site.

Did you also try using the string "frontpage"?

Richard,

maybe you already gave some info on compatibility plans with Joomla 1.5. Couldn´t find anything on first glance. Could you please tell if there is something up your sleeve. For me the accelerate component is absolutely essential.

Thanks, Bernhard

Hi hopeful,

unfortunately cache does only work for visitors but not for logged in users. This is made very clear in the description:

"The logging will not work if a users can log in within the Joomla environment. If a users logs into the Joomla environment (frontend) the cache for the specific user is disabled until the users logs out."

You should have read the info before buying. Nevertheless the caching effect for visitors is absolutely great.

Bernhard

Hi Richard,

since the question about logged in users and cache is coming up very often, I would like to have this clarified in more detail. Maybe this would end all such requests once and forever.
 
1. My impression is that it would´nt be impossible to have the cache also for logged in users but that it would make logging in useless as a logged in user would see/experience exactly what visitors would see.

2. Or is it technically absolutely impossible for reasons of joomla architecture to have the cache working after login?

If it is like (2), I would like to know why, but further questions would probably stop.

But if it is like (1), I would give you a scenario, where it could be useful.
This scenario is a site where no additional possibilities for logged in users are used, but(!) where a bridged integrated forum (e.g. SMF) is used. In the cache settings of (a then new) JRE cache one would exclude the forum by URL.
As it is right now, a bridged forum would make the whole site slow for logged in users.
Do you see a way to make such a scenario happen?

Thanks,

Bernhard

Now I am confused. You mean having the forum completely separated from joomla? Of course this is possible but then I have to heavily modify the SMF-theme in order to not only show a header similar to joomla template but also insert at least some horizontal menu like in the joomla template. This is the solution one can see on www.joomla.org, isn´t it? One of the disadvantages is that I have a vertical menu on the left side of my site. This menu would not be visible on the forum site unless I would change it always manually when I changed it in joomla.
My thought was, that it should be easy to exclude this simultaneous login when using the bridge. Isn´t it just a question of cookie modification? Or could the bridge possibly be stripped down to just integrate SMF visually like it does now but without any syncing of the users and fusion of the login cookie?
   
Anyway, this is more of a bridging problem and not one of the Caching component. Therefore I should ask the bridge author instead of wasting your time here.

Bernhard

Richard, sorry for the delay (have been ill). Unfortunately I have the Forum wrapped right now in the live site unless I have a solution to my problem. So nothing interesting to show.
Could you explain your proposal. Don´t quite get what you have in mind.
What kind of login form are you talking about?

Thanks, Bernhard

Richard,

let me clarify what I want to have:

- SMF should be integrated in Joomla. This should not be done via the Joomla wrapper, because then the site-URL will always stay the same regardless of the position in the forum and a page reload would always load the frontpage of the forum (there might be more disadvantages).

-The Joomlahacks bridge does a nice integration (visually and concerning site-URL) but then logging into the forum would always log into Joomla as well.

- There is no way to tell the bridge to use another login form, only choice is between SMF or Joomla module. Both log into both systems!

So, do you have a specific login form in mind? Of course it is possible to make the SMF theme similar to the Joomla theme and use no bridging at all. But  this would be my last resort, if everything else fails.

Regards,

Bernhard

Hi Richard,

would like to ask a question maybe just to hear your opinion on this. We have joomla combined with SMF via the joomlahacks bridge. Joomla should use the caching component. Now we know that caching is not done when a user is logged in, so the page is slowed down. The problem is, that having the forum bridged it results in logging into the forum and joomla simultaneously. So logging into the forum has the effect of slowing down the whole site for the user. I asked over at joomlahacks if it is possible to use the bridge without logging in to joomla when logging in to the forum but the answer is "no".
My question is, do you see any possiblity to have the forum integrated (not via the joomla wrapper) while retaining the advantages of the caching?
Though this is not a problem of the caching component but the scenario is surely one that should be considered when using joomla+smf+caching.
Would be great to hear your opinion on this.

Thanks,

Bernhard

Richard,

am I right that any captcha image effect would not work when cache is activated? For me the additional review cycle effect when using the cache is great but how to retain some kind of spambot blocking as a captcha image would offer it? I would like to have my cache time set to never expire automatically. Any chance to get this implemented.

Thanks, Bernhard
 

Richard,

just to let you know that after installing the SMF bridge (Orstio) there is no cache generated anymore. Tried it several times now and always the same here. Only uninstalling the bridge makes the caching component work again.

@akolar: Do you have a the bridge working together with the caching?

Bernhard

Sent you an answer some minutes ago!

Bernhard

Unfortunately I am still on PHP4 here. It´s not really urgent but it should be considered when futher developing this great tool.
Maybe this is more of a Joomla problem. Btw. I am using SEF Advance.
At first I thought that this sef-tool could be responsible for the problem. Now I see that I never thought about what Joomla does by default when one uses fantasy URLs. Have to check what happens in such cases.   

Hi Richard,

today i discovered an interesting phenomenon. If someone visits a page that has been deleted and therefore non-existant he gets the usual "this page doesn´t exist" in frontend but there is a cache-file generated connected to each URL visited. In my case the problem is that the pages of a forum that i used to have for some years but removed about 6 months ago seem to be visited by google. This produces hundreds of individual cache files. How can I avoid the production of these cache files? Any idea?

Thanks,

Bernhard