[Typo3] starttime and caching

[Jacob Hammeken]

Hi.

If starttime for a page is set to a future date, the page itself is hidden 
until the starttime has elapsed. That is expected behaviour, but suppose the 
parent page has a menu. In that case, it appears the page cache for the 
parent page is not flushed once the starttime for the subpage has elapsed. 
Thus, the now visible page does not show up in the menu, and because of that, 
one of our customers got the impression that starttime did not work. Is it 
possible to solve this, perhaps by making sure the page cache of all pages in 
the rootline of a page is flushed once its starttime has elapsed, without 
disabling page caching entirely?

That is probably the most common situation, but suppose you have a page 
containing subpages, where each subpage is a redirect, and in a template, you 
have a menu with "special=directory", showing the subpages. If starttime is 
set for one of these redirects, you have the same problem, except now 
flushing the page cache of the rootline does not solve the problem, since 
those are just redirects. Ideally, it seems it would be useful to be able to 
define a set of related pages, page levels, etc. If the page cache of one of 
the pages in a set were flushed, the page cache of all pages in the set would 
be flushed.

Is there an extension or hook to do this, or is there a more obvious solution 
I have missed? I suppose starttime/endtime is handled in the cms extension? 
How does starttime and caching interact?

Regards,

Jacob Hammeken - Wildside A/S
Developer

http://www.wildside.dk
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