Adding caching to a CakePHP application

The caching mechanism of CakePHP does not come with a lot of documentation. Integrating it into an application can be quite complex and cumbersome. I am currently working on solving this in an easy manner. My main concerns with the caching touches views and the CSS caching. Neither of these two systems use the actual Cache engine, instead they use their own file operations. This means that regardless of what cache backend you have configured, these two culprits will still cache their data to disk. Sub-optimal to say the least.

Rapid application development with CakePHP

As part of my endeavor to keep up to date with current development techniques and paradigms I went back to PHP and looked at what was available. Since I had already built several enterprise grade applications with Zend Framework I decided to take a look at CakePHP.

At first look CakePHP seems a bit complex and cumbersome. Once I got to know the system and the various terms used throughout the reference I began to like CakePHP more and more. As an initial project I decided to revive my own personal website again, this time powered by CakePHP. Setting up a blog with an ACL and configuring layouts and various other aspects was a breeze.

I am still learning about the system, though I am sure that I will post some useful plugins soon. I already took Textile to a new level here and made sure that it works from a plugin helper/component setup.