Frog CMS

Manual folder creation works … seems your suspision that my system cannot create the folders is partly correct. The file manager plugin and other plugins I have tried can create folders fine, so I don’t think it is my ‘system’ but rather how Funky Cache creates them … any ideas why Funky cache’s method might be any different?

Debug is stating that the mkdir function has been passed an invalid argument on line 52. I assume that is because the expected $dir value is not being passed for some reason!?

If I trace the $dir value before that line, I notice something that is surely odd. The system path is preluded by a / character … in my case, I’m running the script on a Windows machine, thus this is an invalid value as nothing should prelude the drive letter in the path.

System directory problem … definately. After you highlighted that I found a bunch of folders in the root of the drive that were definately attempts at creating the folders.

I’ve been working a bit on trying to get this plugin to work properly when you configure Frog without a page suffix.

The way I intend to do this is to create the folder structure, with an index.html page to hold the page content.

Example:

• /articles/ -> /cache/articles/index.html
• /projects/test/ -> /cache/projects/test/index.html

I started out doing this with a Frog setup in a subdirectory; but due to the way Apache/htaccess handles the REQUEST_URI/REQUEST_FILENAME – I don’t think it’s possible for it to distinguish between the directory that Frog is installed at and the URL of Frog’s page/subpage you want.

I have it slightly working – domain root (not subdirectory) with basic pages and no plugins. The code expects that there is no URL suffix – i.e. it is likely not to work with it set to .html.

Files

New models/FunkyCachePage.php

Link

Htaccess

# Rewrite to check for cached page.
#RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} ^GET$
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/cache/%{REQUEST_URI}/index.html -f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /cache/$1/index.html [L,QSA]

The above entries should go between Frog’s admin rule and the main Frog rule.

Hehe. Thanks philippe. Forgot about that ;)

A suggestion for Funky Cache (in addition to supporting *nix and windows file systems) could be to have a trawling script to auto-regenerate flat html pages for all the pages. At present, if you change a page, the cached page will display blank on first visit until it is then viewed a second time (when the cached version will have then been created).

Obviously, for a large website, the webmaster would currently have a lengthy job of needing to re-visit all the pages to ensure that all pages are re-cached, so as to ensure visitors view the cached pages correctly on first visit.

Hi Tuupola,

I’m thinking of running this on my live linux box to see if it works any differently to my local windows box. It is such a handy plugin, I think I need to give it some more time to do it justice.

I will post back if I have a different experience with it then.

Hi Tuupola, I’ve been testing with our live servers and there is still definitely something wrong in caching child pages. I can still only cache parent pages.

Running Linux with PHP 5.2.10 and MySQL 5.0.81

Frog settings:

define(‘DEBUG’, false);
define(‘CHECK_UPDATES’, true);
define(‘CHECK_TIMEOUT’, 5);
define(‘URL_PUBLIC’, ‘http://frog.website.com/’);
define(‘ADMIN_DIR’, ‘admin’);
define(‘USE_MOD_REWRITE’, true);
define(‘URL_SUFFIX’, ‘.html’);
define(‘USE_PDO’, true);
define(‘DEFAULT_TIMEZONE’, ‘Europe/London’);

Funky cache settings:

Cach by default = yes
Cache file suffix = .html
Cache folder = /cache/
Cache folder permissions = 777

htaccess:

php_flag magic_quotes_gpc off
AddDefaultCharset UTF-8
Options -Indexes +FollowSymLinks
DirectoryIndex index.html index.php
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-l
RewriteRule ^admin(.*)$ admin/index.php?$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/cache/index.html -f
RewriteRule ^$ /cache/index.html [L,QSA]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} ^GET$
RewriteCond /cache/{REQUEST_URI} -f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /cache/$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-l
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?PAGE=$1 [L,QSA]
</IfModule>

As you can see, all defaults are set. Surely it must still be a problem in creating the folders … even on non-windows servers. I’ll switch debug on and see what I get.

I have the openbase restriction sorted, but there is still a problem making directories. I have also been advised not to use the script if it can’t work within openbase restrictions, for security reasons.

I personally think the directory creation method could do with a re-think, to ensure it can work across different servers. As it is something I am keen to see working, I will see if I can have a go at coming up with a working solution, perhaps one that works on a Windows server too.