[TYPO3-dev] t3lib_cache

[Ernesto Baschny [cron IT]]

Steffen Kamper wrote: on 17.01.2008 10:12:
> Hi,
> 
> cache is one of the most advanced things in TYPO3 and developers search for 
> own methods to clear specific cache.
> What do you think about creating a general cache API?
> 
> My proposal is to bundle existing functions in one file, eg. t3lib_cache, 
> maybe mostly static functions that can be called from extensions.
> API should have functionality like
> - creating chash from given piVars
> - deleting cache of specific pid
> - deleting cache from specific cHash
> - register cache using fields reg1
> - deleting cache with registered reg1
> 
> What do you think? Please let me know you're ideas.

Sounds like a nice idea. The also include a wrapper for getHash and 
storeHash from t3lib_pageSelect (or move them here and make the wrapper 
in pageSelect), as these are probably not very known by people needing 
their own caching.

Maybe at the same time we could enhance that "reg1" integer stuff with 
some more advanced way of tagging cached pages for later pruning by 
extensions. Currently it is only an integer, which really doesn't help 
if every extension want to tag their "single views" using the uid of the 
record that was rendered. An indexed varchar field would be much nicer.

Cheers,
Ernesto