Gordon,

it does look like the Splash module could do what I need if I were using D6. :-/

In the mean time I set the cache lifetime to 1 minute. As this is a super small site with hardly any visitors (it's a SOHO company web presence type of site) caching is hardly necessary.

Bert

On 18/04/2012 10:17, Gordon Heydon wrote:

Hi,

Take a look at the splash module http://drupal.org/project/splash it may provide a solution for you.

Gordon.

On 18/04/2012, at 5:53 PM, Bert Van Kets wrote:

...

Hi all,

I have a D7 website that needs to show an animation when the user enters the site, but not for as long as the user stays on the site. I wanted to use a session variable for this, but it seems there are many times the animation is not triggered. I assume this is due to caching of the page. How can I overcome this? Is there a cache save session variable or an alternative method used in situations like mine.

At the start of the animation part I have the code

<?php if(! isset($_SESSION['showAnimation'])): ?>

at the end of the part I have

<?php endif; $_SESSION['showAnimation']=2; ?>

So when the user first visits the site, the variable is not found and the animation is show. After the animation the session variable is set and the animation is not shown any more. That last version is cached and the animation is not shown, even for the next user who visits the site.

Thanks for any help.

Bert

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I'm sending the answer here for completeness. Apparently the session variables are persistent in the database and that's why the animation was only shown once. The solution is to use a module or theme preprocess function and pass the result of that to the page template. A timestamp variable can keep track if the animation has played or not.

Bert

On 18/04/2012 12:41, Bert Van Kets wrote:

I just did some tests and setting the cache lifetime to 1 minute does not have any effect. Still stuck. :-(

Bert

On 18/04/2012 10:25, Bert Van Kets wrote:

...

Gordon,

it does look like the Splash module could do what I need if I were using D6. :-/

In the mean time I set the cache lifetime to 1 minute. As this is a super small site with hardly any visitors (it's a SOHO company web presence type of site) caching is hardly necessary.

Bert

On 18/04/2012 10:17, Gordon Heydon wrote:

...

Hi,

Take a look at the splash module http://drupal.org/project/splash it may provide a solution for you.

Gordon.

On 18/04/2012, at 5:53 PM, Bert Van Kets wrote:

...

Hi all,

I have a D7 website that needs to show an animation when the user enters the site, but not for as long as the user stays on the site. I wanted to use a session variable for this, but it seems there are many times the animation is not triggered. I assume this is due to caching of the page. How can I overcome this? Is there a cache save session variable or an alternative method used in situations like mine.

At the start of the animation part I have the code

<?php if(! isset($_SESSION['showAnimation'])): ?>

at the end of the part I have

<?php endif; $_SESSION['showAnimation']=2; ?>

So when the user first visits the site, the variable is not found and the animation is show. After the animation the session variable is set and the animation is not shown any more. That last version is cached and the animation is not shown, even for the next user who visits the site.

Thanks for any help.

Bert

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