Append date to file name in order to solve Firefox caching issue?

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Hello everyone,

I’ve got an ugly problem with Firefox and our kirby based internal website we re using here at our workplace.

In panel there is a possibility to replace a file. That’s working fine. The problem is, when some colleagues are downloading file from frontend, they’re “downloading” version Firefox has cached.

I have this setup for downloading a file:

<a href="<?php if($file = $result->documentselect()->toFile()) {echo $file->url();} ?>" download="<?php $file->filename(); ?>">

I had an idea, that it may help to slightly vary the filename everytime the user is downloading it to “trick” firefox thinking it’s a completely new file. I tried this solution with appending the date:

... download="<?php echo date('ymd'); ?>-<?php $file->filename(); ?>"...

But the only output I’m getting is date without the filename with extension. When I’m removing date line it shows filename.

Do anyone has an idea how to fix this? :slight_smile:

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This <?php $file->filename(); ?> doesn’t echo anything, should be

<?= $file->filename(); ?>
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Damn that was simple. I’ve always thought there is no difference between <?= and <?php except first one is shorter to write.

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<?= is short for <?php echo

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