Comments on: Creating a cache file in php for API requests

By: Georgedrak

Georgedrak — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 14:34:47 +0000

I don’t understand the if statement

if(filectime($filename) <= $time_expire). This shouldn't be always true? You have setup $time_expire as rightnow+24H.

Maybe this is more right?

if( filemtime($filename) + 24*60*60 <= time())

By: Learn PHP

Learn PHP — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 07:56:25 +0000

@Nomi Just replace file_get_contents() with the curl download function and this would work. Let me know if it helps.

By: Learn PHP

Learn PHP — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 07:54:07 +0000

What difficulties.

Please note that i am not creating folders in this tutorial, that needs a separate function. I am just creating files in a folder.

By: Learn PHP

Learn PHP — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 07:52:31 +0000

Noted, will see if that makes some valuable difference in performance.

By: Learn PHP

Learn PHP — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 07:50:00 +0000

This was originally design to create cache files out of API requests. Sometime this went out to be many MB’s. Not sure memcache is the right approach for that.

By: nomi

nomi — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:24:37 +0000

I’m looking for curl php cache script
Any clue?

By: jim-websitemarketing

jim-websitemarketing — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 18:22:34 +0000

I have difficulties in setup the catch directory.

By: Arik Jones

Arik Jones — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 17:41:34 +0000

You should use filemtime instead of filectime

By: inversechi

inversechi — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 06:14:29 +0000

This helped me getting started with writing a simple caching plugin for API's to use within codeigniter – thank you

By: Php Ninza

Php Ninza — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 04:32:28 +0000

@inversechi

Sounds great, It would also help if you can share the link of that plugin. I myself have moved to CI and would love to use that plugin.