MFUNC still not working

It’s so strange, the following code works, but my function returns with an empty page on the second pageload (when the content is coming from cache). Do you have any idea what is the difference?

<!-- mfunc mystring echo date('h:i:s'); -->
<?php echo date('h:i:s'); ?>
<!-- /mfunc mystring -->

the following code doesn’t work

<!-- mfunc mystring setPostViews(get_the_ID()); -->
<?php setPostViews(get_the_ID()); ?>
<!-- /mfunc mystring -->

I just checked on the site I was having this issue with and sure enough it’s a problem again. Darn it.
I’m just going to have to forget about fragment caching this for now until this gets resolved (if it ever does).

If Frederick Townes is interested (or anyone else who is smart enough to be able to contribute to the W3TC plugin) I can make the site I’m experiencing this on available as a case study. Just let me know.

One thing I have just noticed is that it only seems to happen with the home page. So the behavior is:
Visit the home page for the first time – loads fine. Refresh that page and you get the white screen of death. Continuous attempts and ctrl+f5 – still get white screen.
Visit any other pages of the site (that use the same fragment caching coding) and they all load fine. Refresh – no problem.

I tried this on my localhost and it worked:

— wp-config.php
define('W3TC_DYNAMIC_SECURITY', 'FRAGMENT_CACHING');

— theme files

<!-- mfunc FRAGMENT_CACHING -->
    echo "Not being cached"
<!-- /mfunc FRAGMENT_CACHING -->

When it’s in production, it doesn’t work. The cached pages get built without the dynamic content but the content of the comment doesn’t show up in the html source code.

Hey there,

Haven’t tried abecoffman’s workaround yet so I can’t comment on that, but I would very very much like a good, stable fix for this functionality. It is absolutely essential functionality.

Thanks to Frederick for your work!

For those of you who are interested, you can go look at the regex that’s being used to extract the code out of the html comment. The issue I was having was determining when this code executes, which Frederick seems to have cleared up.

Hi Frederick,

Thnx for your reply.

Unfortunately it didn’t work out. There are no .old files, so no need to delete those. I’ve tried basic and enhanced cache. The first one with and without the late init option one.

What am I missing?

We just updated to 0.9.2.11 and our mclude calls are still being ignored (they show up as HTML comments in the minified HTML).

Something isn’t looping over the HTML content after it’s pulled from cache and processing the fragmented code blocks before sending it to the browser.

Interesting…

If I do this:

————–
<? $test = “testing”; ?>

<? echo $test; ?>
—————–

I get the expected result.

If I do this:

————–
<? $test = “testing”; ?>

<!–mfunc mysecret –> echo $test; <!–/mfunc mysecret –>
—————–

I get nothing – nothing echos out.

If I run this though:

———–

<!–mfunc mysecret –>
echo rand();
<!–/mfunc mysecret –>

————-

That works, so I know that W3TC is recognizing those tags and running the code im between as php…

Any thoughts on this? I’m stuck because it won’t echo what I need it too,

Chris