README

Craft CMS plugin to provide some useful tools

Requirements

This plugin requires Craft CMS 3.0.0 or later.

Installation

To install the plugin, follow these instructions.

1. Open your terminal and go to your Craft project:

    cd /path/to/project
   

2. Then tell Composer to load the plugin:

    composer require supercool/functions
   

3. In the Control Panel, go to Settings → Plugins and click the “Install” button for Functions.

Utilities

Utilities are collection of buttons in Craft CMS control panel in Utilities section. Our clients have access to them and can perform some basic actions as follows:

• Clear Queues
• Clear Cache (This clears template caches. When CacheMonster cache is cleared it also clears any static cache like Nginx static cache)

Hidden Things

There are some hidden things that are not visible in Craft CMS CP which this plugin does or offers.

Controller actions

clearCaches

This is a controller action which can be accessed using a browser. Lets say we have this plugin installed on a example project with url https://example.com we can access this as follows

• https://example.com/actions/functions/utilities/clear-caches

clearCaches (This clears all template cache including FastCGI static cache if the path is defined in config)

warmCaches

This is a controller action which can be accessed using a browser. Lets say we have this plugin installed on a example project with url https://example.com we can access this as follows

• https://example.com/actions/functions/utilities/warm-caches

warmCache (This simple visits all urls in sitemap.xml file using Guzzle client)

Zendesk Widget

This plugin also adds a nav link called Support to the sidebar of Craft's navigation which opens up a Zendesk widget that can be used by clients to submit support tickets to Zendesk.

We are adding the link in plugins main file using Craft's hook called modifyCpNav and widget's logic is defined in functions.js file.

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