Question

I am using Zend Cache with page caching but it seems to miss the cache after a period of time. For a while it is OK, but I come back tomorrow and hit the page, it doesn’t fetch the contents from the cache. why?

$frontendOptions = array(
    'content_type_memorization' => true, // This remembers the headers, needed for images
   'lifetime' => NULL,                   // cache lifetime forever
   'automatic_serialization' => true,
   'automatic_cleaning_factor' => 0
);

$myPageCache = new Zend_Cache_Frontend_Page(array(
    'debug_header' => false,
    'automatic_cleaning_factor'=>0,
    'content_type_memorization' => true,
    'default_options'           => array(
    'cache' => true,
    'cache_with_get_variables' => true,
    'cache_with_post_variables' => true,
    'cache_with_session_variables' => true,
    'cache_with_cookie_variables' => true
    )));


$backendOptions = array('cache_dir' => '.' . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . 'cache' . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR);

$cache = Zend_Cache::factory($myPageCache,
                             'File',
                             $frontendOptions,
                             $backendOptions);

$cacheKey = hash('md5', "cache_" . $cachePath); // cachePath is the key I use for the cache

if(!$cache->start($cacheKey)) {
I output html here
 $cache->end();
}

Answer 1

Indeed. My read of the static method

Zend_Cache::factory($frontend, $back, $frontendOptions, $backendOptions, ...) 

is that the $frontendOptions are used only when you pass a string for the $frontend parameter. When you pass a concrete instance as you are doing, the $frontendOptions are ignored.

If you still want to pass a concrete instance $myPageCache into the factory, then it seems like you need to pass the lifetime parameter (and the others) into the call that creates the instance. Otherwise, you could load up a single $frontendOptions array and use:

$cache = Zend_Cache::factory('Page', 'File', $frontendOptions, $backendOptions);