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- ReadMe
- Things To Know
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- Thumbs CMS
- Admin Area
- Traffic Rules
- New Style Rotation
- Custom Galleries
- Tube Sites
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- Settings
- New Trade - Add Trade
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Each gallery can be assigned to more then 1 group. You can notice it while gallery edit: there are 2 select fields for groups - main and ext. Rotation - groups counts using main group so we can see real amount of galleries in DB, while Rotation - list thumbs shows galleries using Ext groups , the way you'll see it on site.
cd /PATH_TO_/scj/bin/; env HTTP_HOST=yourdomain.com php rot.php process_deleted=true
Script does not generate static page each minute or something like that. Instead it creates a page once someone request it and saves it to cache with expiration time = CACHE_TIME, so each next the same request will get this page from cache till expiration time.
Yo can set CACHE_TIME in Rotation - Settings , but if for some reason you want to overwrite it somewhere - you can add in common.php
if (!defined('CACHE_TIME')) define('CACHE_TIME', 900);
If you want a page without cache - add &skip_cache=true to any request for example http://domain.com/?skip_cache=true. Note that this request will only show a page to you and will NOT save this page to cache.
If you want script to recreate a page AND save it to cache - you have to go to Rotation - Special - Recreate visited pages and it will add a cookie to your browser so each page you visit will be recreated and saved to cache.
For example: A page was created at 0 seconds. Cache time = 1000 seconds.
At 200th second you change design. If you or any other surfer open that page at this time - you will not see new design.
If you open with 'skip_cache' - you'll see new design, surfers - not.
If you open with 'Recreate cookie' - you'll see new design and surfers will see new design.
If you have really big list to import it could be really hard due to some reasons like size of POST is usually limited, server won't have enough time to process it and so on. Beside that adding a lot of galleries really fast may overload your server.
Good idea is load load this list smoothly using import sets. You have to
<?php error_reporting(E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE); if (!$_GET['file']) die("\n You have to pass file=... parameter in URL"); if (!file_exists($_GET['file'])) die("\n File {$_GET['file']} does NOT exists. Check path. "); if (!is_writeable($_GET['file'])) die("\n File {$_GET['file']} is NOT writeable. Set 666 permissions. "); if (!file_exists('./tmp.file') or !is_writeable('./tmp.file')) die("\n File tmp.file does not exists OR is NOT writeable. Set 666 permissions. "); echo passthru("head -n500 {$_GET['file']} "); if (!$_GET['test']) exec("tail -n +500 {$_GET['file']} > tmp.file; cp tmp.file {$_GET['file']} ");
That's it.
If you read New Rotation FAQ you should know that script generates a page on request only. We do not generate million of pages by cron or something like that. When the page is generated we have to store if somewhere in cache. But we have different types of cache you can use.
File cache A basic one. All cached pages are stored in files (scj/cache folder) Pros - works everywhere, you don't have to do anything. Cons - it's a file cache, it's slow, not so good cached by OS disk operation and script has to check all files for expiration date and so on.
Memcached it was a big step ahead some time ago. Pros: everybody know it. There's no proble for admin to setup it. Cons: sometimes it's hard to find out how much memory is actually still free, data gets fragmented, if you reboot server - you lose all cached data and need time to “warm up” cache after reboot. Memcache can not segregate cached data by popularity and stores everything in memory. It's really painful to reset cache just for 1 site for example.
That's why there are some other cache engines you worth using
New cache engines (basically NoSQL dbs) deliver you more performance while consuming less CPU and HDD.
Easiest solution - Couchbase which was built on MemBase, based on memcachedb, which was inspired memcached. It's really easy to start using it
$config['memcached_host'] = '127.0.0.1'; $config['memcached_port'] = '11211';
and that's it. You can use it with versions 48-49 too.
Redis - another nice key-value product . To you it you have to
$config['redis_host'] = '127.0.0.1'; $config['redis_port'] = '6379'; $config['redis_database'] = 0; $config['redis_password'] = '';
There are few new lines. redis_password - if you have a dedicated server most likely you don't want to setup it. redis_database - it's kinda number of slot in redis DB. Useful if you want to separate caches for your sites for some reason.
Any of those 2 new engines are better then memcache and definitely better then file cache. I'd recommend to use file cache in emergency case only.