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Magento Cache System Basic Concepts

Magento uses a caching system to improve performance. There are functions to save, retrieve, and delete data from the cache. Cache tags group related cached data and clearing a tag removes all associated data. Common tags include "block_html" and "collections". Template caching loads cached block HTML if available. The admin provides options to flush all cache tags or just clear the storage.

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Magento Cache System Basic Concepts

Magento uses a caching system to improve performance. There are functions to save, retrieve, and delete data from the cache. Cache tags group related cached data and clearing a tag removes all associated data. Common tags include "block_html" and "collections". Template caching loads cached block HTML if available. The admin provides options to flush all cache tags or just clear the storage.

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Magento Cache System Basic Concepts

Magento, Nuts & Bolts Jul 14 th, 2015 0 Comments

The Basics – How To Use Cache


In this section we will see how to use cache in our custom modules. Suppose you have a custom module and
wanted to save some data in magento cache, lets see how to do it.

Saving Data To Cache


$data = array(1,2,3,4);  //any data which you want to save to cache
$id = 'my_mod_id'; //unique id for your cache data
$tags = array('collection'); //cache tags will be explain later in detail
$lifetime = false; //false means infinity, or you can specify number of seconds
$priority = 8; // number between 0-9, used by few backend cache models

Mage::app()->saveCache($data, $id, $tags, $lifetime, $priority);

Retrieving Data
Mage::app()->loadCache($id);
Deleting Cache
Mage::app()->removeCache($id);
Checking If Cache Is Enabled
Mage::app()->useCache('collection');  //check if cache group is enabled or not

above are some basic caching function we can use in magento.

Cache Tags
Magento has an important concept cache tags in its caching system. Magento basically uses tags to group cache
data together and then we clear a specific tag group from admin, it removes all data specific to that tag group.
The different cache tags we have are
“block_html”,”collections”,”config”,”config_api”,”config_api2″,”eav”,”layout”,”translate” ,”mage”
These are the same configuration tags which we see when we go to System -> Cache Management
So when you clear a single cache tag in magento, it will clear all cache data related to that tag.

The “mage” tag is a special tag, it automatically gets added when you save anything in magento except when
you save configuration data.

Template Caching
Lets look at how magento cache’s your blocks and phtml files.
All magento block extend “Mage_Core_Block_Abstract” class which has the “toHtml()” function. This
function is called when the template of a particular block is displayed. In this function, we have the $this-
>_loadCache() which check if cache is enabled from admin and if cache data is present. If data is present in
cache, it directly displays it else the toHtml() function “core/template” is called. So this is how all your magento
blocks automatically get cache and all blocks use “block_html” as cache tag.

Magento Admin Cache Operations


In admin we have various cache operations we can do, lets look at each of them and see what they do.
Flush Magento Cache: This operation calls the function Mage::app()->cleanCache(); function.
This function clears all cache tags data.
Flush Cache Storage: This function simply clear up the cache based on caching system. e.g in file storage this
will delete all data in “var/cache” folder and in memcache it will delete all data in memcache.

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