[TYPO3-dev] TypoScript: cache_period for USER objects

[Patrick Gaumond]

Ernesto Baschny [cron IT] wrote:

 > An "intermediate" caching mechanism, which would look like
 > USER (expires at a certain time stamp), but would act like
 > USER_INT (independent of the whole page caching) would be
 > very useful but I afaik it doesn't exist.


> I think the problem is that Oliver wants the whole page to be cached for
> a day, but just a tiny part of it to be updated only each hour.
> Currently he will only be able to do so by either expiring the whole
> page each hour (meaning all plugins on that page needs to be
> regenerated) or by using USER_INT, but then the whole TYPO3-framework
> has to load for each page call, and not only each hour when his plugin
> "expires".

Such a new partial/intermediate caching mechanism would be very helpful 
for Portals in general (RSS, all those external resources, etc.)

Patrick