How do I use cache in CakePHP?

Question

I want to use cache in CakePHP. How do I use it?

Answer 1

CakePHP provides by default file based caching at model level also...

then also to maintain manual caching for any application you can use

Cache::set(array('duration' => '+100 days'));
Cache::write(file_path);

type functions to maintain file based cache

For memcache or any other concept you can take the following links as reference:

• http://bakery.cakephp.org/articles/Molot/2010/01/08/simple-way-to-memcache-almost-all-database-queries
• http://andy-gale.com/cakephp-view-memcache.html

Answer 2

if(!($cachedPosts = Cache::read('cached_posts'))) {
    $cachedPosts = $this->Post->find('all');
    Cache::write('cached_posts', $cachedPosts);
}

In this code example you look if you have the data cached - if not, retrieve it from the database, and write it to the cache. On the next request, the data will come from the cache, not from the database.

Answer 3

Read the Documentation:

• http://book.cakephp.org/view/213/Cache
• http://book.cakephp.org/view/325/View-Caching
• http://book.cakephp.org/search/cache

Answer 4

Before using the cache we have to check that cache is enabled or disabaled in

app/config/core.php.

we have to uncomment this line in core.php

//Configure::write('Cache.disable', true);

After that we use

$varible = Cache::read('variable');
Cache::write('posts', $posts);
Cache::delete();

Answer 5

Check out the /app/config/core.php file.

Answer 6

In the Cache documentation of the manual (1.2): http://book.cakephp.org/view/213/Cache

I would recommend that you disable caching while doing development; you'll find (hopefully not the hard way, like me) that your models and views are not changing as expected.