"Rebuild Site" button for local/live transfers

Logoleptic · 2006-03-22 00:08:40

I do development on localhost, then dump the database and replace the one for the live site. What keeps getting me hung up is the fact that Txp caches the HTML that results from Textile processing in the database. Any in-site links within articles that use relative paths are therefore stuck until those articles are re-saved. I don’t want to use absolute URLs for these links if I can help it, since that would make them lead back to the live site when I’m working on localhost.

This isn’t a big problem with my current project, since the site is small. On larger sites with many articles, however, this would become a big headache. Could a “rebuild” button be included in the advanced admin options for these situations? Is this the kind of thing that could be done with a plugin?

NyteOwl · 2006-03-22 19:21:45

You could always add the following tag to the HEAD portion of your page(s) while working:

<p>It’s handy for trouble shooting pages remotely too when you download a page but want the relative links to still work.</p>

Logoleptic · 2006-03-22 23:15:11

Unfortunately, Txp turns relative links added with Textile (like <notextile><code>click here;) into absolute links in its cached XHTML. I don’t think base href would do any good in that situation.

Last edited by Logoleptic (2006-03-25 09:50:28)

joshwand · 2006-05-15 17:23:35

I would suggest an option to simply turn html caching off— just do the textile->html translation “live”. Howzaboutthat?

Mary · 2006-05-15 18:31:26

Textpattern doesn’t cache anything, your browser does.

joshwand · 2006-05-15 18:37:53

textpattern stores the html conversion from the textile in a dedicated column in the database (textpattern.body_html, as opposed to texpattern.body, which stores the textile version). I know this well, because I’ve had to go through each article one by one, clicking on the preview tab, then resaving the article, to get txp to update its cache of the conversion. (e.g. after an import)

Last edited by joshwand (2006-05-15 18:41:59)

Mary · 2006-05-15 18:47:47

Okay, I get what you are talking about, but I don’t see how that would fix the url problem.

Unfortunately, Txp turns relative links added with Textile (like click here) into absolute links in its cached XHTML. I don’t think base href would do any good in that situation.

No, it doesn’t, it enters the url exactly as you provide it, i.e (view source and you’ll see): click here.

The alternative of use the base tag would be to use html in your article, i.e: <a href="<txp:site_url />contact">click here</a>.

Logoleptic · 2006-05-15 21:54:58

Mary wrote:

The alternative of use the base tag would be to use html in your article, i.e: <a href="<txp:site_url />contact">click here</a>.

I’m using the zem_link plugin now, and that’s solved this problem nicely. Does <txp:site_url /> work in the context of an article?

Mary · 2006-05-17 01:42:36

Does <txp:site_url /> work in the context of an article?

Yes. It just doensn’t play nice with Textile, hence you’d need to use HTML to make the link.

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#1 2006-03-22 00:08:40

"Rebuild Site" button for local/live transfers

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