How do I have a non-cached block for anonymous users? [#1023752]

Thanks for creating this. I think it's exactly what I need but I'm struggling a bit mostly due to my lack of Javascript skills. My goal is to have page caching on for anonymous users in the usual way but have a block updated dynamically. It's a simple breadcrumb link using server variables. No db calls or heavy code involved. I'm using the default Drupal cache handler for now. At this point I don't really need to use AuthCache to cache authenticated users which I think is its primary purpose.

Firstly, can I do that I want with AuthCache?

I have the example module working nicely with an authenticated user but I'm confused as to how I would configure it to produce new data on every request with no (or very minimal) caching. Do I still need the cookie?

As a test I tried setting the block content to time() and max_age in authcache_example.js to null but that doesn't do it. The block doesn't change when I refresh.

I'd appreciate someone pointing me in the right direction.

Thanks

Comments

Comment #1

icosa CreditAttribution: icosa commented 12 January 2011 at 14:56

I think I've figured this out. I was just having some trouble getting my head around how it worked and not studying enough of the details.

Thanks

Comment #2

aharown07 CreditAttribution: aharown07 commented 24 February 2011 at 14:22

Can you tell us how you worked it out? I'm also trying to do this but have no idea how.

Ah... cancel that. Didn't realize I'd landed on a module page. I'm not using the module but am still seeing blocks cache for anon. users when I don't want them to... and don't have block caching enabled. But this is not related to the module here. Sorry.