Where to put the memcache in a ZF project?

Question

I am trying to adopt memcached in my project which is built under ZendFrame.

Firstly I create a Memcached class in the library(it seems a bit unecessary as it pretty much just encapsulates the functions what memcache offers)

Then I am wondering where exactly should I use it?

Controllers or the Mappers?

I can see both ways have its point, what's the conventional way for doing this.

Thanks, guys.

Answer 1

Under bootstrap.php you need to define the configuration using _initCache() function which returns void.

Define frontEnd driver, backend driver (where u will physically save data) and load the factory!

There are 2 types of caching, server and compression.

If you choose server, you need to define external extension (memcached is an extension)

A snippet which I would recommend is:

function _initCache() {

        $frontendDriver = 'Core';
        $frontendOptions = array(
            'lifetime' => 7200, // cache lifetime of 2 hours
            'automatic_serialization' => true
        );

        $backendDriver = extension_loaded('memcache') ? 'Memcached' : 'File';
        $backendOptions = array();

        // getting a Zend_Cache_Core object
        $cache = Zend_Cache::factory($frontendDriver, $backendDriver, $frontendOptions, $backendOptions);

        Zend_Registry::set('Zend_Cache', $cache);
    }

Getting data from Cache:

$date = $cache->load($cacheKey);

Saving data into cache:

$cache->save($data, $cacheKey);

Where can you use it?

ANYWHERE in your application!

Go through this good article.

Any Questions? :)