Your method sounds very interesting. I will contact you via your site’s contact to get more details on your implementation.

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But yea using a little of .htaccess trickery you can ‘serve’ a php file that thinks it s a .js file :p

Been playing around with a few months ago and seems to work well with supercache (i.e. does not cache!)

To bypass this so to get the benefit of cache; I have tried to setup an ‘internal’ cache method for the ‘box’ so google/yahoo/SM etc, versions of the page are cached.

SO what it does is Visitor comes on site -> check referrer, if ref = custom message then check for cached version if cache = yes display otherwise create cache while displaying the php version. If ref = N/A etc display default greet cached version of page.

Downside of this would mean ALOT more cached version of the same page for each unique referrer. Though could be very nice when SM does hit your site.

I was looking at the supercache code but its way to technical for my current standing so i’m just trying to make the php code work nice with supercahce at mo…which is just rial and error and error and error

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I see that you have done tremendous amount of coding for WP Greet Box that you fully deserve the credit.

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How many plugins have you developed so far?

In my case, I used the landing sites source code and created my own greetings plugin. I use this in single posts and homepage to greet search visitors mainly and to pass on specific messages.

These plugins are based on the HTTP_REFERRER global var and sometimes can slowdown the page rendering based on their parsing logic and number of referrer’s included. But definitely, it’s a handy thing.

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Personally, I believe the bulk of the complicated WP Greet Box is due to its admin interface. If you strip it down and look at only how the greeting message is displayed, it is quite simple.

I’ve chatted with Donncha here and there and with Super Cache mode fully enabled, there really is no way to make something partially dynamic unless you use javascript. This is because WPSC saves a copy of the file and uses .htaccess settings to redirect the vistor to the static page right away. There is absolutely no PHP hit.

With WPSC half on, there is some PHP hit in the beginning where .htaccess redirect is skipped and the PHP code tries to figure out which static file to serve to the visitor. You might be able to get away with part of the page being dynamic with half on but I’m not quite sure how to implement such a thing.

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@Donace, I checked your code. it is simple and good. I agree with Thaya about caching issue if PHP is used.

I would like doncha (author of WP Super Cache plugin) to add a functionality where some part of php code is executed irrespective of caching is enabled or not.

Is it possible?

I have intentionally coded it to use JS because I don’t want it to be cacheable. The main reason is the following scenario.

Your first visitor visits from Google and the message is cached saying “Hello Google visitor”. The next visitor comes from Yahoo and the message will still say “Hello Google visitor”. It is something you definitely do not want to be cacheable.

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