Question

Is there a way to disable the caching function in Symfony2? I tried to find the setting in the config* and parameters.ini files and I searched a lot. Ok, I found a few solutions, but nothing for the latest version (Symfony2).

WHY? Because I want to test new templates and functions without clearing the app/cache* all the time.

Answer 1

I’m assuming you’re using the Twig engine, (the default templating engine for Symfony2). To disable caching in twig, so that you do not have to keep clearing the cache like so:

rm -rf app/cache/*

Navigate to your app config file (by defualt will be located in ../app/config/config.yml from your root directory). Scroll to the twig configuration settings (under twig:) and change the cache value (which should be pointing to the cache directory) to false like so:

twig:
    cache:  false

If you do not see any cache configuration entry, simply add the line above.

It may also be helpful to checkout the configuring reference for the Twig bundle: http://symfony.com/doc/2.0/reference/configuration/twig.html

After editing your config_dev.yml file, go to your terminal and run:

app/console cache:clear