[wp-hackers] Caching in 2.5: anyone has a file-based caching plugin?

[Stephane Daury]

On Mar 23, 2008, at 2:25, Mahmoud Al-Qudsi wrote:

>> This seems to work wonder Mamhoud. Big thanks!!
>>
>> On this note, do the caching object and plugins still make use of the
>> ENABLE_CACHE constant in wp-config.php.
>> In other words, is checking if the latter is set to true (and as the
>> codex page states, that DISABLE_CACHE isn't set either) to know if
>> caching is available?
>> Or can I just check if the caching functions exist (version handling)
>> and they'll just fail gracefully (return false) if cache isn't  
>> enabled?
>> What's the best practice?
>
> I've disabled checks for ENABLE_CACHE constants for all the NST  
> object-cache plugins - since you have to make a conscious decision  
> to stick that object-cache.php file there, I assume you do want the  
> caching benefits.
>
> As for checking if caching is enabled - the current WP caching model  
> lets you use the API to cache at all times. If file/xcache/ 
> eaccelerator/etc is enabled, that functionality will be used.  
> Otherwise, caching will be performed for the individual request that  
> you're currently serving, and cached data will expire at the end of  
> the request.
>
> I attempted to convert all the object-cache extensions into actual  
> plugins, but that is not possible unfortunately since it would  
> result in the re-declaration of a class.

Brilliant, thanks again MQ. :)

Stephane