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litespeed_wiki:cache:litemage:troubleshooting:logged-in-out-with-missing-banner [2017/05/04 21:11] Michael Alegre created |
litespeed_wiki:cache:litemage:troubleshooting:logged-in-out-with-missing-banner [2017/05/05 19:10] Lisa Clarke [Issue 3: The Case of The Disappearing Banner] |
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| ==== Issue 1: Logged In/Out ==== | ==== Issue 1: Logged In/Out ==== | ||
| - | On the home page, there is a "Welcome/Login/Create an Account" section at the top. If a user logs in, we expect to see something like ''Welcome, Sam! Logout''. With LiteMage installed, we were instead seeing ''Welcome Sam! Login or Create an Account.'' In this case, LiteMage cached ''Welcome, <punched_hole>! Login or Create an Account'' for a logged out user and served that to the logged in user. | + | On the home page, there is a Welcome/Login/Create an Account section at the top. If a user named Sam logs in, we expect to see **Welcome, Sam! Logout**. With LiteMage installed, we were instead seeing **Welcome Sam! Login or Create an Account**. In this case, LiteMage cached the **Login or Create an Account** text for a logged //out// user and served that to logged //in// Sam. |
| - | This issue was also happening in reverse! LiteMage would instead cache ''Welcome, <punched_hole>! Logout'' for a logged in user, serving ''Welcome, ! Logout'' to non-logged in users. | + | This issue was also happening in reverse. LiteMage would cache **Welcome, Sam! Logout** for logged in Sam, and then serve **Welcome, ! Logout** to different logged //out// users. |
| - | Looking further, we see that the user uses the SM Market theme. It looks like a template problem. | + | Looking further, we saw that these cases were all occurring on sites that used the SM Market theme. It looked like a template problem. |
| - | We need to punch a hole for that piece of info along with the login button and welcome tag. (**[[litespeed_wiki:cache:litemage:troubleshooting:checking-hole-punching|How to check hole punching]]**) | + | LiteMage [[litespeed_wiki:cache:litemage:troubleshooting:checking-hole-punching|punches holes]] for user-specific information like "Sam," the login button, and the welcome tag. The resulting ESI blocks are processed in small chunks. |
| - | Since LiteMage processes these ESI blocks in small chunks, some global PHP variables initialized in header.phtml and social.phtml were not available in these chunks. These two files needed to be updated to initialize them: | + | With this particular template, some global PHP variables initialized in header.phtml and social.phtml were not available in these small chunks. The two template files needed to be updated to initialize them: |
| - | <code> | + | **[app/design/frontend/sm_market/default/template]#** ''vi page/html/header.phtml''\\ |
| - | /home/user1/public_html/domain1.com/app/design/frontend/sm_market/default/template]# vi page/html/header.phtml | + | **[app/design/frontend/sm_market/default/template]#** ''vi page/html/social.phtml'' |
| - | /home/user1/public_html/domain1.com/app/design/frontend/sm_market/default/template]# vi page/html/social.phtml | + | |
| - | </code> | + | |
| - | The following was added to the top of the two templates | + | The following was added to the top of the two template files: |
| <code> | <code> | ||
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| </code> | </code> | ||
| - | according to our **[[litespeed_wiki:cache:litemage:troubleshooting:uninitialized-php-vars-injected-block|Uninitialized PHP Vars In Injected Blocks]]** page. | + | Problem solved! |
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| + | See [[litespeed_wiki:cache:litemage:troubleshooting:uninitialized-php-vars-injected-block|Uninitialized PHP Vars In Injected Blocks]] for more detailed information about this type of issue. | ||
| ==== Issue 2: Punching A Bigger Hole While Still Purging Private Sections ==== | ==== Issue 2: Punching A Bigger Hole While Still Purging Private Sections ==== | ||
| - | Now that the initialization problem is solved, we need to punch a big hole instead of small one. Logging into the Magento Admin and entering LiteMage config, we add "header" in **Customized Block Names for "toplinks" Tag**. | + | Once the initialization problem was solved, we needed to punch a big hole instead of small one. Logging into the Magento Admin and entering LiteMage config, we added ''header'' in **Customized Block Names for "toplinks" Tag**. |
| - | We also see "compare" in a toplinks block, so we add "compare" to **Additional Purge Tags for "toplinks" Blocks** as well. | + | We also saw "compare" in a toplinks block, so we added ''compare'' to **Additional Purge Tags for "toplinks" Blocks** as well. |
| {{ :litespeed_wiki:cache:litemage:troubleshooting:litemage-see-minicompare-tag-add-purge.png?nolink |}} | {{ :litespeed_wiki:cache:litemage:troubleshooting:litemage-see-minicompare-tag-add-purge.png?nolink |}} | ||
| - | For more info on this step, check out **[[litespeed_wiki:cache:litemage:troubleshooting:logged-in-user-info-shown-to-others|Logged In Usernames/Cart Items Shown On Other User's Pages]]**. | + | For more info on this step, check out [[litespeed_wiki:cache:litemage:troubleshooting:logged-in-user-info-shown-to-others|Logged In Usernames/Cart Items Shown On Other User's Pages]]. |
| ==== Issue 3: The Case of The Disappearing Banner ==== | ==== Issue 3: The Case of The Disappearing Banner ==== | ||
| - | At this point we have fixed the logged in/out issue. Great! Except now the banner has disappeared from the homepage. | + | Upon fixing the logged in/out issue, we discovered the banner had disappeared from the homepage! |
| - | After some further investigation, we find that the header template included logic to check if it is displaying on a frontend page or not. If it is not a frontend page, then the banner will not display. This stops us from simply punching a big hole for the header, like we did earlier. | + | The header template includes logic to check if it is displaying on a frontend page or not. If it is not a frontend page, then the banner will not display. This stopped us from simply punching a big hole for the header, like we did earlier. |
| - | We now need to go back and "fix" the login links. | + | We needed to go back and "fix" the login links. |
| - | After making a copy of ''header4.phtml'', the header style file, we open it to begin modifying. | + | After making a copy of header4.phtml, the header style file, we opened it to begin modifying. |
| - | <code> | + | **[app/design/frontend/sm_market/default/template/page/html]** ''vi header4.phtml'' |
| - | [app/design/frontend/sm_market/default/template/page/html]vi header4.phtml | + | |
| - | </code> | + | |
| - | Inside we can see the "log in" link mixed into the header template. That logic needs to be taken out and put in its own block/template so we can both hole punch it as a private block AND keep the rest of the header publicly cached. | + | Inside we could see the "log in" link mixed into the header template. That logic needed to be taken out and put in its own block/template so we could both hole punch it as a private block AND keep the rest of the header publicly cached. |
| <code> | <code> | ||
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| </code> | </code> | ||
| - | We copy the code inside ''<div class="login-regis">'' and move it int our new welcomelogin.phtml file. | + | We copied the code inside ''<div class="login-regis">'' and moved it into our new welcomelogin.phtml file. |
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| + | **[app/design/frontend/sm_market/default/template/page/html]#** ''vi welcomelogin.phtml'' | ||
| <code> | <code> | ||
| - | [app/design/frontend/sm_market/default/template/page/html]# vi welcomelogin.phtml | ||
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| <?php if(!$this->helper('customer')->isLoggedIn() ){ ?> | <?php if(!$this->helper('customer')->isLoggedIn() ){ ?> | ||
| <a title="<?php echo $this->__("Login"); ?>" class="btn-head" href="<?php echo $this- | <a title="<?php echo $this->__("Login"); ?>" class="btn-head" href="<?php echo $this- | ||
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| </code> | </code> | ||
| - | We now add our new “welcomelogin” block in the header block... | + | We then added our new “welcomelogin” block to the header block... |
| - | <code> | + | **[app/design/frontend/sm_market/default/layout]#** ''vi page.xml'' |
| - | [app/design/frontend/sm_market/default/layout]# vi page.xml | + | |
| + | <code> | ||
| <block type="page/html_header" name="header" as="header"> | <block type="page/html_header" name="header" as="header"> | ||
| …. | …. | ||
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| </code> | </code> | ||
| - | ...and update the header4.phtml file to reference the new "welcomelogin" block where the "log in" logic used to be: | + | ...and updated the header4.phtml file to reference the new "welcomelogin" block where the "log in" logic used to be: |
| <code> | <code> | ||
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| </code> | </code> | ||
| - | Finally we go back to our LiteMage Configuration in the Magento Admin Panel and add “welcomelogin” to **Customized Block Names for "welcome" Tag**. | + | Finally we went back to our LiteMage Configuration in the Magento Admin Panel and added ''welcomelogin'' to **Customized Block Names for "welcome" Tag**. |
| Voila! The banner is back and LiteMage is operating at 100%. | Voila! The banner is back and LiteMage is operating at 100%. | ||