[Plugin: W3 Total Cache] varying query string variables wildcard

Resolved savvyharry
(@savvyharry)

14 years, 7 months ago

hi support,

I am using w3 total cache and i am interested in serving cached pages to urls with varying query string variables.

here is what i mean:

page to cache:
http://www.domain.com/page1/

can the above cached page be served to:
http://www.domain.com/page1/?date-time-unique-identifier1
http://www.domain.com/page1/?date-time-unique-identifier15
http://www.domain.com/page1/?date-time-unique-identifier16
http://www.domain.com/page1/?date-time-unique-identifier155
http://www.domain.com/page1/?date-time-unique-identifier1877
http://www.domain.com/page1/?date-time-unique-identifier1411
http://www.domain.com/page1/?date-time-unique-identifier18383452
http://www.domain.com/page1/?date-time-unique-identifier1555

Is there currently an option to do this?

I am not interested in Caching URIs with query string variables, because my query string variables will CHANGE for every visitor… so there is no point to cache each page relative to each string.

Can I simply serve them the same cached page regardless of what the trailing query string variables are? Something like a wildcard function?

Thank you very much!

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/w3-total-cache/

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Thread Starter savvyharry
(@savvyharry)

14 years, 7 months ago

sorry, forgot to mention…

should matter but I would like to do this for “Page caching via memcached”

marcuslayton
(@marcuslayton)

14 years, 6 months ago

we are also looking for this functionality – let me know what you have figured out
marcuslayton
(@marcuslayton)

14 years, 6 months ago
we ended up modifying the lib\w3\PgCache.php file – right at the top of the file
```
function _get_page_key($request_uri, $mobile_group = '', $referrer_group = '',
        $encryption = false, $compression = false, $content_type = false) {
        // replace fragment
        $key = preg_replace('~#.*$~', '', $request_uri);

// WE ADDED THIS
// replace query string
$key = preg_replace('~\?.*$~', '', $key);
```
obviously it we’ll have to do it every update – and your implementation is a touch different

would be nice to get that added in as a feature
Thread Starter savvyharry
(@savvyharry)

14 years, 6 months ago
hi marcuslayton,

it seems you have got it working 🙂 so the final mod looks like version 1 below?
```
function _get_page_key($request_uri, $mobile_group = '', $referrer_group = '',
        $encryption = false, $compression = false, $content_type = false) {

        $key = preg_replace('~\?.*$~', '', $key);
```
or would it look like verision 2 below?
```
function _get_page_key($request_uri, $mobile_group = '', $referrer_group = '',
        $encryption = false, $compression = false, $content_type = false) {

        $key = preg_replace('~#.*$~', '', $request_uri);
        $key = preg_replace('~\?.*$~', '', $key);
```
1) with your modification, does this REMOVE the query string entirely?

2) or does it simply ignore the query string now and serve the cached page regardless?

3)

implementation is a touch

if you don’t mind me asking, how are you guys using it? can you give some suggestion so that it would work for my purpose as well?

thanks for your help!
Andreas
(@andreasnrb)

14 years, 3 months ago

Its currently not possible. But its version 2 they are using.
And it removes the query for all modes not just disc enchanced.

marcuslayton
(@marcuslayton)

14 years, 3 months ago

thanks andreas – i missed responding to this

Plugin Contributor Frederick Townes
(@fredericktownes)

14 years, 2 months ago

There will be hooks available for addressing cases like this in the next release.

marcuslayton
(@marcuslayton)

14 years, 2 months ago

ahh – excellent – thanks frederick! dang love the plugin

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