Add-ons

Advanced Cache is an add-on for developers and theme designers. It's aim is to make websites faster via caching.

When to use

• If you have Full Page Caching disabled on one or more pages. Why? Well, if FPC is enabled, the whole page is cached, so there's not need for block caching.
• If your theme contains hard coded blocks or if you want to cache a chunk of output. Why? Blocks on a page are cached by default, but blocks that have been added programmatically to a template, are not cached.
• If you want to cache the output of (global) areas or other PHP data.

Use cases of programatically added blocks

• Autonav blocks that render the breadcrumbs or a menu.
• Next / Previous blocks that point to another page.
• Page List blocks that lists pages of a certain page type.

Features

• The cache can automatically be invalidated. It hooks into various Page and User events.
• Define whether it should cache on a per page level. (e.g. the next_previous block's output differs per page)
• Define whether it should cache on a per user level. (e.g. a menu can be different for each user)
• Define how long a cache entry should be valid.
• Possibility to enable/disable caching via a closure.
• It can cache the output of blocks, areas, and PHP data.
  
• Flush the cache per item via a dashboard page.

Requirements

• You need basic PHP skills and familiarity with how concrete5 themes work in order to get the most out of this add-on.
• concrete5 8.3.1+
• PHP 5.6+

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