Zend Cache

This article covers the use of tagging within the Zend_Cache. It gives example code of how to implement Zend_Cache within your code and shows why you need a tag cloud and gives the code to build it.

Zend_Cache provides a generic way to cache any data. Caching in Zend Framework is operated by frontends while cache records are stored through backend adapters (File, Sqlite, Memcache...) through a flexible system of IDs and tags. Using those, it is easy to delete specific types of records afterwards (for example: "delete all cache records marked with a given tag").

Issued Zend Framework 0.1.4 preview release comes with new interesting caching classes. I tested them at this weekend and IÂ’m glad to say that they can speed up your application dramatically. Zend_Cache namespace contains classes that aid in caching page outputs and function results; and, of course, the caching core API allows storing virtually any information you want. What is also brilliant, Zend_Cache allows developers to manage caching records by associating them with tags, which makes possible group operations with the cached items.

Caching isn't one of those things that many people think of when designing their first applications. However once they launch their new AJAX enabled web2.0 application, they might start wondering what they can do to get this beast to move faster. The answer is caching.