Magento – how to disable cache for cms block

cachecatalogcategory

unfortunately in this situation I do not have $this->getChildHtml to assign false to it and then change my xml file for disabling cache I have this block in view.phtml:

    <?php echo $this->getCmsBlockHtml() ?>

and the function is in view.php as follow:

public function getCmsBlockHtml()
{
    if (!$this->getData('cms_block_html')) {
        $html = $this->getLayout()->createBlock('cms/block')
            ->setBlockId($this->getCurrentCategory()->getLandingPage())
            ->toHtml();
        $this->setData('cms_block_html', $html);
    }
    return $this->getData('cms_block_html');
}

any ideas on how to disable the cache here? my page is in category folder when displaying the products

Update:with help of Denis I understood that (for some pages) when I have something in constructor if the cache is enabled the constructor will not be called! and so I think that's the reason why setting the cache life time doesn't work there

Best Answer

To disable Block Html Cache you should set cacheLifeTime to null. You can see more details in Mage_Core_Block_Abstract::_loadCache()

protected function _loadCache()
{
    if (is_null($this->getCacheLifetime()) || !$this->_getApp()->useCache(self::CACHE_GROUP)) {
        return false;
    }
    ...
}

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Magento – Disable cache for specific template

you can use with xml like

You can use it

<reference name="your block">
    <action method="setCacheLifetime"><s>null</s></action>
</reference>

<reference name="your block">
    <action method="setCacheLifetime" />
</reference>

to set it to null.

or if you are using it by getChild then also pass as argument

You can disable cache in getChildHtml(). This is what the signature looks like:

public function getChildHtml($name = '', $useCache = true, $sorted = false)

This should do the trick:

echo $this->getChildHtml('block', false);

Magento – Magento disable cache for price block

Most likely it is the FPC that is sticky and not the block.

Pricing should be hole punched by default for the FPC if you are using a default theme.

I would recommend reviewing your theme/template in more detail. To help facilitate this AOE_TemplateHints is great at identifying blocks that are being cached or not.

Try this instead, NOTE, the </s> will pass a null value, as 0 will mean cache forever.

<block type="catalog/product_price_template" name="catalog_product_price_template" >
         <action method="setCacheLifetime"><s>null</s></action>
        </block>

References:

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