Notes News Block

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• If the block display looks off (bad alignment, incorrect content, ect). Delete the news_cache and set news_cache_expire = 1 for the suspect user (uid 1 = anonyumous) in gl_userprefs. This will re-paint the block with updated content.
• The block also has a built in timer. To enable the timer, uncomment the following lines in lib-custom.php:

//$_NEWS_TIMER = new timerobject();

//$_NEWS_TIMER->startTimer();

AND uncomment the lines in display_news.php

//$boxtitle.= "<small><br>Created this block in <b>";

//$boxtitle.= $_NEWS_TIMER->stopTimer();

//$boxtitle.= "</b> seconds.</small>";

• You can adjust the cache values by editing the display_news.php file. By default, cache is stored for 30 minutes. To change the value, edit the following lines of code and replace 30 with your preference:

if ($age_minutes > 30) // if cache is more than 30 minutes old

if ($user_age > 30) // if cache is more than 30 minutes old

You will need to do this in two places in the display_news.php page, once for logged in users and once for anonymous users.

• You can turn on a message that displays the last update time of the cache. By default this message is turned off. To enable the message uncomment the following lines of code in display_news.php (lines below shown without comments):

// ADD cache age message is more than 1 minute old -- off by default

if ($user_age > 2)

{

$boxtitle.= "
Last updated $user_age minutes ago.";

}

// ADD cache age message is more than 1 minute old -- off by default

if ($age_minutes > 2)

{

$boxtitle.= "
Last updated $age_minutes minutes ago.";

}

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