Need to add some custom php (setting cache headers) what is the best way?

Fifty · August 2015

I need to set custom php headers to control caching, the quick & dirty way is to edit the main index.php. But that's probably not the proper way to do it

What is the easiest way, to add a little code snippet, without touching the core files? Do I need to create an Addon, or are there easier ways? I've used search, but couldn't find it (although I can hardly imagine that this hasn't been asked before, so perhaps I use the wrong keywords ...)

whu606 · August 2015

@Fifty

One solution would be to create a custom theme ( http://docs.vanillaforums.com/theming/quickstart/ )

and then edit the default.master file.

If it is a .tpl file, you would need to put the code in <literal> </literal> tags.

mtschirs · August 2015

editing index.php is the wrong way. The Gdn_Controller class sends its headers in the render() method. You can overwrite these headers via call to Controller->setHeader($name, $value) e.g. in a plugin viapublic function Base_render_before($sender) { $sender->setHeader(...); }

This might be of interest to you: https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla/pull/2948

Fifty · August 2015

Thanks @why606 and @mtschirs, I already have my own theme (primarily for the custom css) so I'm gonna test how that works with the php header setting!

Bleistivt · August 2015

You probably also want to do this for static files on your server, so I would rather do this in the server rules, e.g. in .htaccess:

Header set Cache-Control "public"

Need to add some custom php (setting cache headers) what is the best way?

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