Bug #6681

Extending life of a cache file

Details

Request #6681	Extending life of a cache file
Submitted	2006-02-03 10:17 UTC
From	alex at vegagames dot net
Assigned	fab
Status	Closed
Package	Cache_Lite
PHP Version	4.3.10
OS	Linux
Roadmaps	(Not assigned)

Comments

[2006-02-03 10:17 UTC] alex at vegagames dot net

Description:
------------
Greetings,

it would be very useful for me to have something like a extendLife($time) method.

The idea is that I have 1 filecache/user on my website (to cache some data rarely used that shouldn't be store in $_SESSION). As long as they're connected (it can vary from 30 seconds to 1 hour) I don't want the cache file to be removed.

But as there is a lot of hourly connections I don't want to set a 1 hour life, I'd rather use ->extendLife($time) or whatever each time the cache is valid.

Example :

include_once("PEAR/Cache/Lite.php");
$cache = new Cache_Lite(array(
"lifeTime" => 10 * 60,
"automaticCleaningFactor" => 1000,
"hashedDirectoryLevel" => 2 ));

if ($data = $cache->get($iduser))
{
...
$cache->extendLife(15*60); // extend life with another 10 minutes
}
else
{
// Regenerate data
}

Is there a way to do it right now ?

Thank you in advance
Take care

[2006-02-04 12:56 UTC] fab at php dot net

I think it's easy to implement this, i will try to add into 1.7.0 beta 2

[2006-02-04 14:00 UTC] alex at vegagames dot net

Great ! I really appreciate it :)

[2006-02-04 17:13 UTC] fab at php dot net

Ok extendLife() is implemented in CVS but without the lifetime argument (technical reasons).

When called, the cache is "touched", so it will be ok for another lifeTime period.

[2006-02-04 17:13 UTC] fab at php dot net

fixed in CVS

[2006-02-04 18:09 UTC] alex at vegagames dot net

Extra cool, i'm going to test it this week-end, thanks for the extra fast reply and changes :)