Changes to have Top10 plugin working with W3 Total Cache

Hi guys,

here I am posting a small snippet of the file top-10.php

Original line:

$output = ‘<script type=”text/javascript” src=”‘.$tptn_url.’/top-10-addcount.js.php?top_ten_id=’.$id.'”></script>’;

to be replaced with:

$output = ‘<script>jQuery.ajax(“‘ .$tptn_url. ‘/top-10-addcount.js.php?top_ten_id=’ .$id. ‘&top10_rnd=” + (new Date()).getTime() + “-” + Math.floor(Math.random()*100000));</script>’;

Hope this help you.

BYE
Angelo

Hi guys,

gearhungry what you see i normal. When you do caching of a page, on the first request of your home page for example (url=/) the system create a static .html file in the filesystem. All the other coming requests will be served (very quickly) using this static .html file.

it means that, using my change the counter is correctly updated, BUT the users are, by default, visualizing the ‘old’ generated page.

You can approach this problem in different ways:
a) Considering that the cache is, by default, re-created every time you publish a nerw article. In my example I publsh, in average, 2 articles/day so for me is enough.

b) You can set the cache expiration policy (only for the page that contains the top 10 data) more often: like each hour.

c) You can ‘wrap’ the portion of the page containing the top 10 data with special tags (If I rememeber correctly are <!– mfunc –> and <!– /mfunc –>: this portion will be recreated at each request.
Note that the approach (c) will impact the performance.

In my opinion the best approach is (a) in a lot of cases.
If you need more ‘fresh’ data, you can go for option (b) setting a expiration policy properly (but I do not recommend to be less than 15min).

Hope this help
Angelo

PS: my site is http://best5.it

Ajay,

when are you planning the next release?

I hope you will embed the changes to manage the cache (via Ajax call). It is 1 line code to change so it will be very simple for you.

If possible can you pls add a simple config/admin options where you can disable daily stats if not needed (so avoiding doing SQL insert in the DB)? Today I have to comment manually 3 lines of code every time you do a new release…

Thanks for your support
Angelo