Clear Cache plugin for CakePHP

Posted by Fahad on Mon, Nov 08 2010

I have been responsible for updating a number of CakePHP applications lately, and needed to delete the cache files every time I did a 'git pull' on the server. I couldn't find any existing shell that takes care of a task like this, so decided to write one quickly.

What it does

At the moment, the plugin deletes each and every file in /app/tmp with a prefix 'cake_'.

How to use it?

You have to to use it from CakePHP console for now. If I have time later, may be I will make it a Croogo supported plugin so that cache files can be deleted from admin panel too.

$ ./cake clear_cache all

Download

Get it from GitHub here: https://github.com/fahad19/clear_cache.

Happy Caching!

Note: I just found out about another CakePHP plugin by Ceeram, and surprisingly it has the same name. I just wish I found it earlier: https://github.com/ceeram/clear_cache.

Posted in Plugins, CakePHP

8 Comments

Henrik Gemal said on Nov 08, 2010

wow that's way to complicated. My clear cache shell looks like this:

<?php
class CacheClearShell extends Shell {
var $uses = array();

function main() {
clearCache(null, "views");
clearCache(null, "models");
clearCache(null, "persistent");
Cache::clear(false, "memcache");
$this->out("All caches cleared!");
}
}
?>

Fahad said on Nov 08, 2010

Unfortunately your code will not clear cache files in the root (/app/tmp/cache/cake_*) or inside any other custom created directories (like tmp/cache/queries/ used in Croogo). That is the reason for searching each and every file and then deleting them.

Nate said on Nov 08, 2010

Nice. Thanks Fahad. I've been meaning to create something like this and you beat me to it. I appreciate it.

ceeram said on Nov 09, 2010

and i had beaten you fahad :) thx for the link though

john said on Jan 07, 2011

Thanks this tip.

remarketing said on Oct 02, 2011

The Clear Cache plugin for CakePHP really did the trick for me and I was quite thrilled because I was doing it in another complicated way till now!! Since there is more or less a small tutorial on it, I found it very easy to follow and understand about the plugin very easily!! And what’s more, you have the download right here and start using it right away!!

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