XF 2.1 Banner won't update unless I re-save PAGE_CONTAINER

[Mave]

What I'm trying to accomplish:

Have a different banner image every day, code for this already works.
Code is located in PAGE_CONTAINER

    <xf:css>
        bannerimage_{{ date($xf.time, 'z') + 1 }}.jpg
    </xf:css>

The problem:

The banner image only updates when I re-save PAGE_CONTAINER
Otherwise the banner image stays cached.

The question:

How would I go about automatically re-loading the PAGE_CONTAINER once a day?
(or another method of fixing this issue)

Thank you in advance!

 

[Mave]

Anyone?

 

[djbaxter]

The way you're trying to do it will never work.

What you want is a rotating banner add-on (there are 2-3 to choose from) but the tricky part will be rotating only once per day - not sure why you want to do that, by the way - you may need custom coding for that.

 

[Max Taxable]

Snozzy's Daily Doodle. You can have a different banner every day. For free.

[OzzModz] Daily Doodle Alternating Logo

Snog submitted a new resource: Daily Doodle - Change your logo like Google does Most people know that Google changes its logo on specific days to honor holidays, birthdays, or other notable events. They call these temporary logos "Google Doodles." Many XenForo Admins like to mark special days...

xenforo.com

 

[Mave]

Snozzy's Daily Doodle. You can have a different banner every day. For free.

[OzzModz] Daily Doodle Alternating Logo

Snog submitted a new resource: Daily Doodle - Change your logo like Google does Most people know that Google changes its logo on specific days to honor holidays, birthdays, or other notable events. They call these temporary logos "Google Doodles." Many XenForo Admins like to mark special days...

xenforo.com

Thanks for this suggestion, however what I want is a banner per day number.
Isn't there any way to automatically re-load the PAGE_CONTAINER cache nightly?

 

[Max Taxable]

what I want is a banner per day number.

I don't really understand that. What do you mean by banner?

You can see in the thread, there's been some discussion, and also tips on how you can use that addon to do what I think you're trying to do.

 

[HWS]

XenForo templates are compiled at the time of saving them. There is no way to automatically recompile some templates daily.

You need to put the logic into the file that is called from XenForo to show a different banner each day.

 

[Snog]

Because "bannerimage" is not a stock XF item, could you provide the full code in the template where it's actually displayed? What you show in your first post appears to just be setting it, but where it's displayed (or actually used) is unknown to all of us.

If you're overriding a CSS value for a div or some such thing, you should be doing that in the CSS(LESS) template. Or manually changing the style for the div in the appropriate template(last resort).