Disabling Chrome cache for website development

Question

I am modifying a site\'s appearance (CSS modifications) but can\'t see the result on Chrome because of annoying persistent cache. I tried Shift+refresh but it doe

Answer 1

Hey if your site is using PHP then place following little PHP snippet at the beginning of your html page :

   //dev versioning - stop caching
   $rand = rand(1, 99999999);

Now everywhere you load resources like CSS- or JS- files in a script or link element you append your generated random value to the request URL after appending '?' to the URI via PHP:

    echo $rand;

Thats it! There will be no browser that caches you site anymore - regardless which kind.

Of course remove your code before publishing or simply set $rand to an empty string to allow caching again.