[TYPO3-dev] page cache is not influenced by tt_content.starttime/endtime

[Steffen Kamper]

Martin Holtz schrieb:
> Hi,
> 
>>> So i wrote an extension which checks now all content elements of an page
>>> before it is written to page cache. If there is an element with
>>> starttime/endtime within the 24hours, the cache expire timestamp is
>>> set to
>>> that value.
>> this definitly is something that should be in the core rather than be
>> sleeping in some extension...
>>
>> could you please make a patch and send it to the core list? Looking
>> forward to your patch!
> No it respects groups permissions via enableFields() but i have not test
> it enough.
> 
> And i thought about an hook or an global variable where an extension
> could check the expire time too.
> 
> I think it would be very usefull, if an tt_news plugin could set the
> expire-timestamp too, so if an news should be shown the expire-time of
> that page would be set to the correct time.
> 
> I have two solutions in my mind for that:
> 
> 1) an global variable where every extension can set the value is - i
> think - an easy solution.
> 
> 2) Using a Hook - it is the comman way and has an clear interface. It
> would be easy to recognice that feature. But i think it has much more
> "overhead" to intantiate some classes to get an simple integer value.
> 
> At the perfomance view i would take solution 1) but from point of
> separation and team work, i would take soulution 2)
> 
> Can someone give me an comment on that?
> 
> thanks,
> martin

Hi Martin,

i didn't digged in this deeper, but does TSFE has this as variable?
It should work in same manner as overriding the page title as seen in 
tt_news.

vg Steffen