Re: Disable all caching

On Tue, October 10, 2006 10:17 am, Benjamin Adams wrote: > I have a php (ver 4.x) script that is being cached. > I have placed: > <META HTTP-EQUIV="CACHE-CONTROL" CONTENT="NO-CACHE"> > but the page is still being cached. I'm not sure if its apache or > the php. How can I disable all caching? > is there something I can set in php.ini? All the headers and all the META tags in the world won't get EVERY browser and EVERY caching / proxy server (AOHell) to stop caching. If you really truly absolutely MUST have no caching at all, generate random/unique URLs for your content. <img src="/images/phpscript/nocache=<?php echo mt_rand()?>/whatever.jpg" /> phpscript can be ForceType'd to readfile whatever.jpg (or to fopen/fread/echo if your JPGs are large) and the nocache will guarantee the browser won't cache it. More precisely, the browser WILL cache it, but you send the browser a new URL every time, so it renders the cached item useless. Maybe if the browser-makers actually honored the no-cache headers they keep making up out of thin air, I would feel bad about wasting their cache like this. But they don't, so I don't. You need the .jpg at the end for IE to do the right thing. -- Some people have a "gift" link here. Know what I want? I want you to buy a CD from some starving artist. http://cdbaby.com/browse/from/lynch Yeah, I get a buck. So?