Title: How to Prevent PHP Code from Caching
Last modified: July 4, 2024
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# How to Prevent PHP Code from Caching
* Resolved [generosus](https://wordpress.org/support/users/generosus/)
* (@generosus)
* [1 year, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-prevent-php-code-from-caching/)
* Good Day,
* We are curently using the code snippet provided below to display a message on
the front end of our website (i.e., contact page) indicating whether our business
is open or not.
* In order for the code snippet to work, we had to disable caching on our contact
page.
* Is there any way (via code snippet, ajax call) we can execute the code snippet
provided below without the need to disable caching on our contact page?
* Thank you!
* ——————–
* ```wp-block-code
function business_hours_shortcode($atts) { if (is_page ('contact')) { // Set timezone - change this to match your own. date_default_timezone_set('America/Chicago'); // An array of your opening hours. $opening_hours = array( 'Monday' => array('07:30', '17:30'), 'Tuesday' => array('07:30', '17:30'), 'Wednesday' => array('07:30', '17:30'), 'Thursday' => array('07:30', '17:30'), 'Friday' => array('07:30', '17:30'), 'Saturday' => array('Closed'), 'Sunday' => array('Closed'), ); // An array of your holidays (format: month/day - add zero before single-digit month or day) $holidays = array('01/01', '05/26', '07/04', '07/05', '09/02', '11/11', '11/28', '11/29', '12/24', '12/25', '12/31'); // Get current date, day, and time. $current_date = date('m/d'); $current_day = date('l'); $current_time = date('H:i'); // Get today's opening hours. $today_hours = $opening_hours[$current_day]; // Check if today is a holiday. if (in_array($current_date,$holidays)) { return 'CLOSED FOR HOLIDAY'; } // Check if we have opening hours for today. if (!isset($today_hours) || count($today_hours) < 2) { return 'CLOSED TODAY'; } // Check if current time is between opening hours. if ($current_time >= $today_hours[0] && $current_time <= $today_hours[1]) { return 'CURRENTLY OPEN'; } else { return 'CURRENTLY CLOSED'; } }}add_shortcode('business_hours', 'business_hours_shortcode');
```
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* Plugin Author [Shea Bunge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bungeshea/)
* (@bungeshea)
* [1 year, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-prevent-php-code-from-caching/#post-17870459)
* Hi [@generosus](https://wordpress.org/support/users/generosus/),
* What sort of page caching are you using?
* Thread Starter [generosus](https://wordpress.org/support/users/generosus/)
* (@generosus)
* [1 year, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-prevent-php-code-from-caching/#post-17871637)
* Hi [@bungeshea](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bungeshea/),
* We’re using Speed Optimizer and Cloudflare.
* Thank you.
* Plugin Author [Shea Bunge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bungeshea/)
* (@bungeshea)
* [1 year, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-prevent-php-code-from-caching/#post-17872449)
* Unfortunately, I can’t think of a way of bypassing that caching through a snippet.
Is there a way of excluding the relevant pages from caching? That’s all I can
think of at this time.
* Thread Starter [generosus](https://wordpress.org/support/users/generosus/)
* (@generosus)
* [1 year, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-prevent-php-code-from-caching/#post-17872988)
* Hi [@bungeshea](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bungeshea/),
* No worries. We’re already bypassing the caching of the affected page.
* We found [this great plugin](https://wordpress.org/plugins/content-no-cache/)
and are waiting for the plugin developer to respond to our inquiry.
* Cheers!
* Thread Starter [generosus](https://wordpress.org/support/users/generosus/)
* (@generosus)
* [1 year, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-prevent-php-code-from-caching/#post-17873098)
* Hi [@bungeshea](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bungeshea/),
* Problem solved with another lightweight plugin: [Content No Cache](https://wordpress.org/plugins/content-no-cache/).
* Check out this [support topic](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-not-work-with-shortcodes-4/).
Perhaps you can work together with the plugin developer to find ways to further
help your customers and enhance your Pro plugins.
* Cheers!
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