Manual cache file deletion?

[Jakobud]

I just started messing around with this. Works great so far. I was wondering if it's possible to manually delete cache files when you are using filesystem storage as the caching type? I don't see where the cache files are stored on the file system.

There are some cases where I need to manually delete the cache and let my webpage rebuild the cache because a DB query was modified and I can't wait until the cache expires. Is the only way to delete the cache to call $cache->delete()?

[khoaofgod]

You can use $cache->delete("keyword");
$cache->clean();

OR:

Delete folder cache.storage , this folder is store at current location of phpfastcache.php if you are using CGI , suPHP, and it store at tmp / upload folder of server if you are using DSO.

Read the document examples/2.setup.php , and you can setup custom path for this folder.

[Jakobud]

Ah okay thanks! The cache.storage folder is what I was looking for. Specifically I was wanting to manually delete the cache file/folder at the command line or via SFTP. Thanks

[Jakobud]

Hmmm where is the cache.storage supposed to be? I don't see it at the same location as phpfastcache.php... My setup is:

require_once('phpfastcache/phpfastcache.php');
phpFastCache::setup('storage','auto');
$cache = phpFastCache();

Am I doing something wrong? Where else would the cache file be?

[khoaofgod]

if your php run as suPHP it will be in folder phpfastcache
if you're using DSO as PHP, it will be under /tmp or upload folder.

phpFastCache doesn't want to border you about CHMOD 0777 for that folder, so it automatic pick a right way with good security and have writeable for you.

If you want custom path for that folder, look at examples/2.setup.php <-- 🎯

You can do:
phpFastCache::setup("path", dirname(FILE));

[fajarfariyanton]

how to save all cache to one folder , and not create one folder to one cache

[khoaofgod]

set the storage to "sqlite" , it will save to sqlite 1 - 2 files only.

Because Linux / Windows directory only allow around 30,000 files I think.

So, if you don't split them to multiple folder, the cache folder will dead after couple weeks, and also it's very diffucuti to clean up a folder have more than 10,000 files, slow and cost memory when reading everything from that folder. In real world, 1 folder contant all cache files is bad. Use "sqlite" / "memcached" / "memcache" if you don't want to deal with files.

I suggest sqlite