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Hiya

I’ve just used the cookie module to implement the EU cookie law
and came across the following problem.

On cached templates, when try and use the delete cookies
or agree cookies it fails on these. Or more rightly
says it working but then keeps the state the same until
the cache refreshes.

When i turn caching off it works as you’d expect.

Any way question is should it work with cached templates.

Cheers
Paul

Hello PaulAyling,

Thank you for posting your question here on the ExpressionEngine forums.

I believe that this is the expected behavior. You may want to turn caching off on the template used for this function.

Cheers,

Hey Shane

Thanks for the reply.

Slight issue with that then, EU law means needs to be on all pages, so means caching off for
most of the site. Not great

Ah well
Paul

Hi PaulAyling,

Let me check with the Devs, there may be more to this than I am aware of.

Hold tight.

Thanks for checking 😊

Hey Paul,

So turns out you can get around it.

Put the Cookie Module bits that you want to use in an embed or a snippet, which is not cached. Done.

Is there anything else I can do for you?

Cheers,

Hi Shane

Sorry no go, that’s exactly how I have it setup, I have 2 snippets one to load a bar at the top of the site to allow opt in and out, and another to either load php-ga or the standard GA code in the header.

It works well with the template caching off but turn it on it fails.

I have also tried in line in the template :(

snippit looks like this:

Hey Paul,

That’s a surprise to me. I am working on getting an answer from the Devs on this. Please stay tuned.

Thanks,

Cheers Shane

Paul

Ah- while a snippet would be generally preferable in this situation as it’s really a simple text swap?  Try using an embed instead of a snippet to hold your cookie code.  Given the way pages are put together, that should work as long as the embedded template is not cached.  (The one with the embed on it can be cached.)

Hi Shane and Robin

Moved to embeds and is working fine, thanks for the perseverance 😊

Cheers
Paul

😉  Glad that did the trick - and thanks for the confirmation!