Cache_Lite

Fast and Safe little cache system

This package is unmaintained.

Download latest release 1.8.3 (there is a newer Composer installable version)

License: lgpl

Description

This package is a little cache system optimized for file containers. It is fast and safe (because it
uses file locking and/or anti-corruption tests).

Documentation

Manual

Maintainers

Fabien MARTY (fab) — lead, inactive
Markus Tacker (tacker) — lead, inactive

Dependencies

Required

PHP (>= 5.4.0)
PEAR Installer (>= 1.5.4)
PEAR (>= 1.10.1)

Releases

1.8.3 (stable, 2019-11-19)
Release notes

License: lgpl

* PR #8: Fix failing CI
* PR #9: Add PHP 7.1 and 7.2 to run PHPUnit on Travis
* PR #10: fix(Lite): make _memoryCacheAdd not clear whole cache if limit reached
* PR #11: fix get_magic_quotes_runtime is deprecated
1.8.2 (stable, 2018-02-13)
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License: lgpl

- Bug #21003 "PHP7: Cache_Lite has a deprecated constructor"
- Bug #21231 "The each() function is deprecated in PHP7.2"
1.8.0 (stable, 2016-07-04)
Release notes

License: lgpl

- Add PHP5-style constructors, but keep PHP4 ones for BC
- Make non-static test method static
- Raise minimum PEAR version to 1.10.1
- Raise minimum PHP version to 5.4
1.7.16 (stable, 2014-05-10)
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License: lgpl

- Update tests to work with PHPUnit4
1.7.15 (stable, 2012-05-24)
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License: lgpl

- Fixes Bug #19434: Bad roles for test and doc files. Props to Remi Collet for reporting.
1.7.14 (stable, 2012-05-21)
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License: lgpl

- Fixes PEAR Bug #19422. Props to Fletcher Moore for reporting.
1.7.12 (stable, 2011-08-15)
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License: lgpl

- Fixes PEAR Bug #18679. Props to Tama Pugsley for reporting.
1.7.11 (stable, 2011-05-30)
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License: lgpl

- Updated LICENSE to include "new" address of FSF. Fixes PEAR Bug #18571. Props to Remi Collet
for reporting.
- Updated links to LGPL in package.xml
1.7.10 (stable, 2011-05-29)
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License: lgpl

- Updated LICENSE to include "new" address of FSF. Fixes PEAR Bug #18571. Props to Remi Collet
for reporting.
1.7.9 (stable, 2011-03-02)
Release notes

License: lgpl

- If sys_get_temp_dir() is available and the 'cacheDir' option is not provided in the
constructor options array its output is used to determine the suitable temporary directory. See Bug
#18328
1.7.8 (stable, 2009-07-07)
Release notes

License: lgpl

- Set magic quotes runtime only if needed. See Bug #15725.
1.7.7 (stable, 2009-03-07)
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License: lgpl

- Fixing definition of Cache_Lite_File::get(). See Bug #15986.
1.7.6 (stable, 2009-01-25)
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License: lgpl

- Changed PEAR dependency to 1.5.4. See http://pear.php.net/advisory-20070507.txt
1.7.5 (stable, 2009-01-23)
Release notes

License: lgpl

- Bug #7446 - use time() instead if mktime() to prevent a strict error beeing raised.
- Request #11766 - Use mt_rand() instead of rand()
1.7.4 (stable, 2008-06-09)
Release notes

License: lgpl

Implemented feature request:
- #13693 Added new option to Cache_Lite::remove() to check for non-existing cache files.
- Added unit test file for Bug #13693
1.7.3 (stable, 2008-04-14)
Release notes

License: lgpl

Bugs fixed :
- #11224 Fixed improper use of strpos
- #11260 Fixed improper use of internal property resulting in memory cache not beeing saved
- #12750 Fxied internal cleaning routine
1.7.2 (stable, 2006-06-03)
Release notes

License: lgpl

Bugs fixed :
- #7799 : setToDebug() doesn't work
- #7732 (or #7598) : hashedDirectory refactoring to get rid of some warnings (in some particular cases)
1.7.1 (stable, 2006-05-13)
Release notes

License: lgpl

Bugs fixed :
- #7618 : can't save cache correctly (in some particular cases)
(thanks to neta-master at ywcafe dot net)
Other changes :
- new unit test file (about bug #7618)
1.7.0 (stable, 2006-02-21)
Release notes

License: lgpl

No change (just some modifications into online documentation)
1.7.0beta2 (beta, 2006-02-04)
Release notes

License: lgpl

Bugs fixed :
- 3 unit test files was forgotten in beta1 package.xml
New features :
- request #6681 : new extendLife() method (thanks to alex at vegagames dot net)
- request #6617 : "$this->method()" calls are ok with Cache_Lite_Function without
workaround
(thanks to thomas dot nicolai at unisg dot ch)
- request #6575 : new options 'dontCacheWhenTheOutputContainsNOCACHE', 'dontCacheWhenTheResultIsFalse',
'dontCacheWhenTheResultIsNull' (thanks to thomas dot nicolai at unisg dot ch)
- new debug option for Cache_Lite_Function
- new test files
1.7.0beta1 (beta, 2006-01-28)
Release notes

License: lgpl

New features :
- 3 new unit tests
- a new option is available in the constructor "errorHandlingAPIBreak" (boolean, false by
default) ;
if set to true, it introduces a little API break but the error handling is better in
CACHE_LITE_ERROR_RETURN
mode (specially with the save() method which can return a PEAR_Error object)
Changes :
- code refactoring for setToDebug() (thanks to moosh (at) php (dot) net)
- code refactoring (thanks to code analyzer)
Bugs fixed :
- #6388 : add an explicit dependancy on PEAR package (for error handling) (thanks to moosh (at) php
(dot) net)
1.6.0 (stable, 2005-12-02)
Release notes

License: lgpl

No change (just some modifications into online documentation)
1.6.0beta2 (beta, 2005-11-25)
Release notes

License: lgpl

New features :
- a new phpt test script (eternal caching)
- you can now call Cache_Lite constructor with any argument (thanks to ratibus at gmail dot com)
Bug fixed :
- bugfixes about eternal caching
Other change :
- better code factoring (thanks to ratibus at gmail dot com)
1.6.0beta1 (beta, 2005-11-17)
Release notes

License: lgpl

New features :
- phpt test scripts
- add of drop() method to Cache_Lite_Function (thanks to
Hugo Morganho hjm at holos dot pt)
- request #5495 : a null lifetime give an eternal caching (need tests)
Bug fixed :
- bugfix #5921 : a variable was unused (no consequence for the end user),
thanks to moosh at php dot net
- bugfix #5938 : little mistakes given by Zend Code Analyser
- little mistake in the example for Cache_Lite_File
1.5.2 (stable, 2005-07-18)
Release notes

License: lgpl

Bug Fixed :
- a "package.xml" problem (a file was forgotten)
1.5.1 (stable, 2005-07-10)
Release notes

License: lgpl

Changes :
- juste a little more docs since 1.5.0 (beta)
- the state in "stable" now
1.5.0 (beta, 2005-06-18)
Release notes

License: lgpl

New features :
- add of a doNotTestCacheValidity in Output (like in Lite.php)
- request #4502 : better control on cache cleaning condition (thanks to
vincent lascaux); introduce the idea of a user callback for the
cleaning process
- new Cache_Lite_File module (for a cache controlled by a master file,
very usefull for templates or config caching)
Bug fixed :
- avoid a potential error message if cache doesn't exist
- bug #4236 : fread PHP warning on zero length read (because of the change
of fread() behaviour in PHP) (thanks to rick dot overman at gmail dot com)
1.4.1 (stable, 2005-03-01)
Release notes

License: lgpl

Bug fixed :
- problem of non-ISO-8859-1 characters in package.xml (bug #3621)
- problem of the returning value in clean() method (integer and not void)
(thanks to Demian Turner (demian (at) phpkitchen (dot) com))
1.4.0 (stable, 2005-01-21)
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License: lgpl

Changes :
- juste a little more docs since 1.4.0beta1
1.4.0beta1 (beta, 2004-12-10)
Release notes

License: lgpl

New features :
- hashed cache directory structure with the choice of the level (thanks to Mike Benoit (ipso at
snappymail dot ca))
- new options for cleaning the cache ("not in group", "too old"...) (thanks to
dontilooksweetandinnocent@ambience.ru)
- automatic cleaning of too old cache files based on a customisable "random method"
1.3.1 (stable, 2004-08-16)
Release notes

License: lgpl

Bug fixed :
- problem with clean() method with memoryCaching activated (thanks to Bojan Mihelac (bmihelac at mihelac
dot org))
- remove() method didn't deal with memoryCaching
- bug fix #1758, thanks to Dave (djpenton at cs dot mu dot oz dot au)
1.3 (stable, 2004-02-07)
Release notes

License: lgpl

Changes :
- Add a warning in examples file because of http://pear.php.net/bugs/bug.php?id=660
Bug fixed :
- little warning fix in Cache_Lite_Function (fab)
- little bug fix in lastModified() method (thanks to Yavor Shahpasov)
- fix http://pear.php.net/bugs/bug.php?id=513 (thanks to alan@aardwolfweb.com)
1.2 (stable, 2003-10-25)
Release notes

License: lgpl

Changes :
- Rewrite of Cache_Lite constructor (thanks to Brian E. Lozier)
New Features :
- Add of lastModified() method (for Cache_Lite hackers) (thanks to Harry Fuecks)
- Introduce automatic serialization (false in default) (thanks to Dan Wilson)
- Add of an url for a cache_lite tutorial (english (thanks to paj) and french)
Bug fixed :
- Change the Cache_Lite::raiseError calls in $this->raiseError (thanks to Holger Willenborg)
- Set the default group for remove, since get and save both have it set (thanks to jellybob)
- Little fix for caching binary data under Windows (thanks to Simeon Franklin)
- little fix with fileNameProtection set to false (not the default (big thank to Harry Fuecks))
1.1 (stable, 2003-02-24)
Release notes

License: lgpl

Changes :
- Move to usage of call_user_func_array() and call_user_func() as call_user_method() is depreciated
(thanks to Sterling Hughes)
New Features :
- Introduce memoryCaching (idea of Mike Benoit)
- Add of a file name protection option (can be faster if set to off) (thanks to Brian Webb for the idea)
Bug fixed :
- Little fix : cache was inefficient if the output is only 0 (thanks to Brian Webb)
- notice fix (thanks to Lorenzo Alberton, Pierre-Alain Joye and Jon Parise)
- Little fix to avoid file names problems with an exotic group name (thanks to Brian Webb)
- Fix a possible bug when resave a cache file after a succesfull get (thanks to Michael Caplan)
1.0.1 (stable, 2002-11-12)
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License: lgpl

Bug fixed :
- clean() bug with group (Thanks to Ondrej Jombik)
1.0 (stable, 2002-11-11)
Release notes

License: lgpl

This is the first stable release of Cache_Lite. There is no big change since the
0.4 beta release but two months of tests !
Changes :
- fix magic_q issue (Thanks to Moshe Doron)
0.4 (beta, 2002-09-28)
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License: lgpl

New features :
- Add setLifeTime() method to change the cache lifetime dynamicaly
Changes :
- changes in the directory layout and in file names to (better) respect PEAR standards
=> incompatibility with 0.3 version even there is no incompatible change in the API
0.3 (beta, 2002-08-31)
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License: lgpl

New features :
- Add '$doNotTestCacheValidity' optional parameter for the get() method
Changes :
- raiseError() method becomes public
- swap of two lines in _write() method (Thanks to Jean-Francois BUSTARRET)
Bugs fixed :
- remove blank spaces at the end of the class (Thanks to Jean-Francois BUSTARRET)
- E_NOTICEs problems and maybe a minor bug of errors management (Thanks to Sebastian BERGMANN)
0.2.0 (beta, 2002-08-10)
Release notes

License: lgpl

New features :
- Adding Cache_Lite_Function (to cache the result and output of functions/methods)
Bugs fixed :
- In a few cases of cache corruption, it was possible to get some warnings (but the output was correct)
- Cache_Lite_Output require_once (to load Cache_Lite) wasn't correct
0.1.1 (beta, 2002-08-08)
Release notes

License: lgpl

A little packaging fix
0.1 (beta, 2002-08-08)
Release notes

License: lgpl

This is the first release.

Bugs

ID	Status	Type	Version	Date	Summary
#9	Bogus	Bug		2003-09-15	not work with mod_gzip under apache
#513	Closed	Bug		2004-01-03	Throws Notice when _automaticSerialization = true
#660	Wont fix	Bug		2004-02-01	Problem using Cache_Lite_Function's 'call' method and $this->method
#1216	Closed	Bug		2004-04-15	method clean() when using memoryCaching
#1758	Closed	Bug		2004-06-30	warning generated
#2820	Closed	Bug		2004-11-24	Slow when many files
#3621	Closed	Bug		2005-02-27	CRITICAL: non-ISO-8859-1 characters in package.xml must be entitied
#4236	Closed	Bug		2005-04-27	fread PHP warning on zero length read
#4261	Closed	Req		2005-05-02	umask on mkdir with hashedDirectoryLevel
#4502	Closed	Req		2005-06-01	Better control on cache cleaning condition
#4644	Closed	Req		2005-06-20	Change some of the options passed in the constructor
#4957	Bogus	Bug		2005-07-31	null data on save method
#5103	Wont fix	Req		2005-08-16	get should return references
#5109	Wont fix	Req		2005-08-16	nested calls crash file key
#5414	Bogus	Bug		2005-09-15	Corrupt cache file creation
#5492	Bogus	Req		2005-09-22	Cache_Lite: eternal cache feature request
#5495	Closed	Req		2005-09-22	should support eternal caching
#5610	Closed	Bug		2005-10-05	Error in documentation
#5853	Closed	Bug		2005-11-02	Cache_Lite::get() throwing errors on uncreated files
#5921	Closed	Req		2005-11-10	unused var
#5938	Closed	Bug		2005-11-11	mistakes given by a code analyser
#6290	Closed	Req		2005-12-19	non-specific automaticCleaningFactor
#6319	No Feedback	Bug		2005-12-21	CACHE_LITE_ERROR_RETURN does not work for save method
#6388	Closed	Bug		2006-01-02	dependancy not anonounced
#6575	Closed	Req		2006-01-25	Cache_Lite_Function
#6609	Wont fix	Req		2006-01-27	Detach unlinking of old cache
#6617	Closed	Req	1.7.0beta1	2006-01-29	Cache_Lite_Function
#6681	Closed	Req	1.6.0	2006-02-03	Extending life of a cache file
#7061	No Feedback	Bug	1.7.0	2006-03-08	Cache-Control fails
#7292	Bogus	Bug	1.7.0	2006-04-04	Bogus
#7337	Bogus	Bug	1.7.0	2006-04-07	Eternal caching doesn't work
#7410	Suspended	Req	1.7.0	2006-04-17	Performance enhancement with fpassthru()
#7411	Wont fix	Req	1.7.0	2006-04-17	New module Temp.php
#7446	Closed	Bug	1.7.0	2006-04-20	Using mktime() with no args is generating strict errors
#7598	Closed	Bug	1.7.0	2006-05-10	PHP Warnings on cache directory creation
#7618	Closed	Bug	1.7.0	2006-05-13	can't save cache correctly
#7732	Bogus	Bug	1.7.1	2006-05-26	Warning on cache reading/writing
#7799	Closed	Bug	1.7.1	2006-06-02	Call to invalid setOptions() in setToDebug()
#8221	Closed	Bug	1.7.2	2006-07-14	error in _writeAndControl
#8226	Suspended	Req	1.7.2	2006-07-16	E_STRICT related to PHP5
#8246	Bogus	Bug	1.7.2	2006-07-19	Cache Dir
#8361	No Feedback	Bug		2006-08-04	Cache_lite bug with MBSTRING
#9178	Closed	Doc	1.7.2	2006-10-27	Cache Lite drop method doesn't return true
#9229	Bogus	Bug	1.7.2	2006-11-03	Fatal error using setToDebug();
#9480	Bogus	Req	1.7.2	2006-11-27	Aquiring the cache expiry date
#9669	No Feedback	Bug	1.7.2	2006-12-21	function drop() is broken
#9836	No Feedback	Req	1.7.2	2007-01-15	fread() in _read function malfunctioning
#10502	Open	Req	CVS	2007-03-25	Cache_Lite_Function::call should accept standard callbacks as 1st argument
#10527	Wont fix	Bug	CVS	2007-03-27	Function::_makeId() creates different ids for same function call
#10923	Wont fix	Req	1.7.2	2007-05-04	Storage Containers
#11224	Closed	Bug	1.7.2	2007-06-05	Implicit type conversion => too much cache is flushed?!
#11260	Closed	Bug	1.7.2	2007-06-09	possible misstyped property
#11727	Bogus	Bug		2007-07-31	typo in Lite.php notingrou vs notingroup
#11728	Duplicate	Doc		2007-07-31	User note that is a documentation problem
#11766	Closed	Req	1.7.2	2007-08-05	Use mt_rand() instead of rand()
#11767	Duplicate	Req	1.7.2	2007-08-05	Use mt_rand() instead of rand()
#12179	Open	Req	1.7.2	2007-10-03	File.php: Allow timestamp in constructor in place of masterFile
#12750	Closed	Bug	1.7.2	2007-12-21	Clean memory cache
#13297	Open	Req	1.7.2	2008-03-03	Support for per item lifetime
#13553	Bogus	Bug	1.7.2	2008-04-01	Memory Leak if cacheDir is not writeable
#13692	Duplicate	Bug	1.7.3	2008-04-16	warning function.unlink: No such file or directory
#13693	Closed	Req	1.7.3	2008-04-16	warning function.unlink: No such file or directory
#14441	Closed	Req	1.7.4	2008-08-03	Allow more flexible control over permissions and groups of files and dirs
#14636	Wont fix	Bug	1.7.4	2008-09-11	Intermitent bugs during autocleaning and reading
#15725	Closed	Req	1.7.4	2009-01-22	set_magic_quotes_runtime deprecated in PHP 5.3.0 (alpha4dev)
#15986	Closed	Bug		2009-03-06	E_STRICT warnings
#16119	Bogus	Req	Irrelevant	2009-04-18	Count cache entries cleaned
#16162	No Feedback	Req	1.7.7	2009-04-30	Support for nested output capturing
#16591	Closed	Req	1.7.8	2009-09-10	Touch cache files on regeneration to prevent "stampeding"
#17269	Open	Req		2010-03-25	Extend Cache_Lite::lastModified() take a cache_id to return the age of an entry
#17774	Open	Req	SVN	2010-08-21	Patch: Avoid deprecated function calls
#18192	Suspended	Bug	1.7.8	2011-01-13	Improper file opening in _write method
#18328	Closed	Req	1.7.8	2011-03-02	Proper default for cacheDir
#18414	Closed	Bug	1.7.9	2011-03-31	switch / case mistake
#18546	Closed	Doc	1.7.9	2011-05-17	Link to technical choices document is broken
#18569	Closed	Bug	1.7.9	2011-05-28	Potential bug in Cache_Lite
#18571	Closed	Doc	1.7.10	2011-05-30	LICENSE file is outdated
#18679	Closed	Bug	1.7.11	2011-07-22	_cleanDir missing files
#18965	Closed	Bug	SVN	2011-11-06	Tests fail due to dir structure
#18987	Closed	Bug	SVN	2011-11-14	remove error_reporting (for PEAR QA team)
#19046	Closed	Bug	SVN	2011-11-15	Test fails in CI environment
#19222	Closed	Bug	Git	2012-01-13	pear package-validate fails
#19422	Closed	Bug	1.7.14	2012-05-17	_read truncates cache files
#19433	Closed	Bug	1.7.14	2012-05-23	Corrupt archive
#19434	Closed	Bug	1.7.14	2012-05-23	Bad role for tes and doc
#19711	Closed	Bug	1.7.15	2012-11-19	wrong data returned form get
#19712	Open	Req	1.7.15	2012-11-20	clearstatcache use on write only
#19720	No Feedback	Req	1.7.15	2012-11-26	Flawed locking mechanism
#20417	Closed	Req	1.7.16	2014-09-30	Git repository has no version tags
#21003	Closed	Bug	1.7.16	2015-12-16	PHP7: Cache_Lite has a deprecated constructor
#21231	Closed	Bug	1.8.0	2017-07-26	The each() function is deprecated in PHP7.2.