Frontpage not removing expired discounts

[JTimmer]

We have a relatively new shop. We discounted some products with end date and there was at the top of our frontpage a list of discounted products. The discounts expired 2 days ago but the products were still on the FP. When you clicked them you saw normal price. When I manually emptied the cache they disappeared from FP as one would expect. I expect this to work automatically. What can be wrong?

V8.2 on Vimexx hosting (php 8.1, directadmin)

[endriu107]

This is cache related issue. Module on home page probably caching it's configuration (products and other data) that why changes are visible after remove manually cache.

 

[JTimmer]

I checked it, it seems to be the ps_specials module. It's a native module right? Is this a bug?

[endriu107]

It's hard to tell it is this module bug or other issue. Just for test you can change in this module method renderWidget to something like this:

public function renderWidget($hookName = null, array $configuration = [])
    {
            $variables = $this->getWidgetVariables($hookName, $configuration);

            if (empty($variables)) {
                return false;
            }

            $this->smarty->assign($variables);

        return $this->fetch($this->templateFile);
    }

 

[JTimmer]

I'm not sure what to do with that code or how to test it after replacing some part. I just need to refresh the cache every now and then I guess. Can this be automated?

[Prestashop Addict]

How discounts are made (cart rules, specific prices...)?

[JTimmer]

It's a Dutch shop, it's a specific price on the product page in the admin, with an end date. Maybe the English term is different?

[Prestashop Addict]

il y a 17 minutes, JTimmer a dit :

It's a Dutch shop, it's a specific price on the product page in the admin, with an end date. Maybe the English term is different?

It's not really a bug, either a not implemented feature. When you add end date in a rule (cart or specific price) there is no hook to notify core/modules expiration arrived. According to me you have 3 solutions:

1. As @endriu107 suggested you change module code to avoid caching (bad performances)
2. You open and save every day module ps_specials, this delete cache (no vacations, no we, no disease... 😉)
3. You develop a module that in cron task check for end of time rules and delete template cache of ps_specials module and index

[JTimmer]

Is there a supported way of adding temporary discounts?