Custom Platform Specific Caching

[Elvis]

Hi!

I know Joomla has Platform Specific Caching one can set in Global Configuration, but it doesn't separate mobile and tablet devices and I need to do that.

Currently I'm using User Agent Detector plugin from Rene Kreijveld, which uses excellent Mobile_Detect library: https://github.com/serbanghita/Mobile-Detect and which sets a session variable accordingly.

Would it be technically possible to write a caching plugin, which could extend Joomla's caching mechanism to detect devices based on Mobile_Detect library and write separate cached files according to the visitor's device?

Regards

[Johan Janssens]

Hello Elvis,

That's pretty easy to do, you could for example switch the cache folder using a plugin based on the environment. Another option could be to change the cache key that the caching library uses. That would be a little bit harder but also doable.

Hope that helps,

Johan