Hi, I have developed a small K2 plugin to display a contact form on every K2 article as requested by my client, the plugin uses the onK2BeforeDisplayContent and onK2AfterDisplayContent K2 plugin events.

I have an issue with cache, if I enable cache, the form gets cached an the plugin code of the onK2BeforeDisplayContent and onK2AfterDisplayContent K2 events gets bypassed!

Is there a workaround for this? I need to get the contact form plugin code executed and have the rest of my K2 articles cached.

Thanks in advise!

PS: Using J! 2.5.28 and K2 2.6.9

Hi,

All the content and K2 plugins are cached since they are part of the output of the component. This is the intended behavior. The cache is bypassed only when the user is logged in.

There is no way to bypass this. And i don't see a reason why a form should not be cached.

If you give some details about what your plugin is supposed to do, i can give you some suggestions regarding the implementation.

Great!

If you get the captcha wrong, as the form gets cached, the code for captcha checking is bypassed, also the code to send the form data to a desired email gets bypassed too, because that code doesn't get executed (I mean the part that checks if the "send" button got clicked)

here is the custom K2 plugin for you to check it out it.mgscreativa.com.ar/formcontacto.zip

I really want cache and my lovely plugin working together. Please have in mind, that the plugin, depending on the current article ID will add two extra fields to the form (of course that also gets cached, displaying only one kind of form).

Thanks!

Hi, I need some advise on this if it's possible to achieve this with a plugin.

Thanks!

I really don't have time to check your plugin's code.

What do you mean when you say that the form gets cached? How do you use a plugin to check the captcha? Such code should be definitely placed in a component controller.

If you don't want to create a component you can take a look at the AJAX interface that Joomla! provides. You can learn more regarding this at docs.joomla.org/Using_Joomla_Ajax_Interface .

Great, will look into com_ajax.

Thanks a lot!

You are welcome.