concrete5 :: Which of these block cacheing properties are really needed? Trying to clean up possibly useless code in my block.

Which of these block cacheing properties are really needed? Trying to clean up possibly useless code in my block.

October 09, 2011 at 3:25 PM Permalink

When creating my blocks I have mostly copied over code from existing, free blocks and made changes from there.

Within a lot of the code I have seen are the following...

protected $btCacheBlockRecord = true;
   protected $btCacheBlockOutput = true;
   protected $btCacheBlockOutputOnPost = true;
   protected $btCacheBlockOutputForRegisteredUsers = true;
   protected $btCacheBlockOutputLifetime = 300;

I would like to remove any of the above that are unnecessary but am not sure which to remove if any.

I guess I am wondering what the above do?

Is $btCacheBlockRecord a setting which if true, cache's the MySQL record used by the block which it retrieves from the database?

Is $btCacheBlockOutput the cacheing of the output such that C5 does not have to run the block logic or it's code anymore to display what the block normally displays?

What is $btCacheBlockOutputOnPost all about? IF my block does not use a form and/or does not use the POST method is that really necessary? Is this even about the POST method?

What is the difference between $btCacheBlockOuputOnPost and $btCacheBlockOutputForRegisteredUsers? Are both of these really necessary?

Any input anyone cares to give me would be appreciated. Better yet if anyone knows where these properties are explained exhaustively I would appreciate a link to said place.

Thanks.

Carlos