README

A simple cache system with support for multiple drivers and a focus on performance. There is only a minimal wrapper between the exposed API and the underlying driver so as to keep the library as fast as possible.

Installation

Either checkout the code and require src/Kache.php. Or use Composer:

"require": { "laurent22/kache": "1.*" }

Setup

Using the file driver:

Kache::setup(array(
	'driver' => 'file',
	'path' => '/path/to/cache_folder',
));

Using the Redis driver:

Kache::setup(array(
	'driver' => 'redis',
	'server' => array(
		'host' => '127.0.0.1',
		'port' => 6379,
		'dbindex' => 1,
	),
));

Using the null driver (to disable caching):

Kache::setup(array(
	'driver' => 'null',
));

Usage

The class instance can be accessed either via Konfig::instance() or by the convenience method k(). For example:

k()->set('somekey', 'somevalue', 120); // Cache for 2 minutes
var_dump(k()->get('somekey'));
$k()->delete('somekey');

You may also use the getOrRun() method which will either return the given key or, if it doesn't exist, will do the following:

• run the provided function.
• set the key to the value returned by the function. This allows simplifying the boiler plate code needed when getting/setting cache values. For example, the following code:

function getName() {
	$name = k()->get('name');
	if ($name !== null) return $name;
	$name = getNameFromDb();
	k()->set('name', $name, 600);
	return $name;
}

can be simplified to just this:

function getName() {
	return k()->getOrRun('name', function() {
		return getNameFromDb();
	}, 600);
}