When calling file_put_contents()
within a destructor, it causes files to be written in SERVER_ROOT
... (Yikes!) Workarounds?
tldr:
I want to cache an array, probably containing serialized class instances. I figured, for now, I would write a class that implements the cache using unserialize()/file_get_contents()
and serialize()/file_put_contents()
and then hide its functionality behind a more generic Cache class. (I don't know if my client's host will have shared memory or PEAR, etc)
<?php
class CacheFile {
private $filename;
private $data;
private $dirty = false;
function __construct($filename) {
$this->filename = $filename;
$this->load();
}
function __destruct() {
// Calling file_put_contents within a destructor causes files to be written in SERVER_ROOT...
$this->flush();
}
private function load() {
if(!file_exists($this->filename)) {
$this->data = array();
}
else {
$this->data = unserialize(file_get_contents($this->filename));
// todo
}
$this->dirty = false;
}
private function persist() {
file_put_contents($this->filename, serialize($this->data));
$this->dirty = false;
}
public function get($key) {
if(array_key_exists($key, $this->data)) {
return $this->data[$key];
}
else {
return false;
}
}
public function set($key, $value) {
if(!array_key_exists($key, $this->data)) {
$dirty = true;
}
else if($this->data[$key] !== $value) {
$dirty = true;
}
if($dirty) {
$this->dirty = true;
$this->data[$key] = $value;
}
}
public function flush() {
if($this->dirty) {
$this->persist();
}
}
}
$cache = new CacheFile("cache");
var_dump( $cache->get("item") );
$cache->set("item", 42);
//$cache->flush();
var_dump( $cache->get("item") );
?>
See the call to flush()
in the destructor? I really don't want to have the public flush()
function because it's implementation-specific.