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cache

Stores the rendered content into the caching framework and reads it from there. This allows you to reuse this content without prior rendering. The presence of "cache.key" will trigger this feature. It is evaluated twice:

  • Content is read from cache directly after the stdWrapPreProcess hook and before "setContentToCurrent". If there is a cache entry for the given cache key, stdWrap processing will stop and the cached content will be returned. If no cache content is found for this key, the stdWrap processing continues as usual.

  • Writing to cache happens at the end of rendering, directly before the stdWrapPostProcess hook is called and before the "debug*" functions. The rendered content will be stored in the cache, if cache.key was set. The configuration options cache.tags and cache.lifetime allow to control the caching.

Property

key

Data type

string /stdWrap

Description

The cache identifier that is used to store the rendered content into the cache and to read it from there.

Note: Make sure to use a valid cache identifier. Also take care to choose a cache key that is accurate enough to distinguish different versions of the rendered content while being generic enough to stay efficient.

Property

lifetime

Data type

mixed /stdWrap

Description

Lifetime of the content in cache.

Allows you to determine the lifetime of the cached object independently of the lifetime of the cached version of the page on which it is used.

Possible values are any positive integer and the keywords "unlimited" and "default":

integer: Lifetime in seconds.

"unlimited": Cached content will not expire unless actively purged by id or by tag or if the complete cache is flushed.

"default": The default cache lifetime as configured in config.cache_period is used.

Default

default

Property

tags

Data type

string /stdWrap

Description

Can hold a comma-separated list of tags. These tags will be attached to the cached content into the cache_hash storage (not into cache_pages) and can be used to purge the cached content.

[tsref:->cache]

Examples:

5 = TEXT
5 {
  stdWrap.cache.key = mycurrenttimestamp
  stdWrap.cache.tags = tag_a,tag_b,tag_c
  stdWrap.cache.lifetime = 3600
  stdWrap.data = date : U
  stdWrap.strftime = %H:%M:%S
}

In the above example the current time will be cached with the key "mycurrenttimestamp". This key is fixed and does not take the current page id into account. So if you add this to your TypoScript, the cObject will be cached and reused on all pages (showing you the same timestamp).

5 = TEXT
5 {
  stdWrap.cache.key = mycurrenttimestamp_{page:uid}_{TSFE:sys_language_uid}
  stdWrap.cache.key.insertData = 1
}

Here a dynamic key is used. It takes the page id and the language uid into account making the object page and language specific.

cache as first-class function:

The stdWrap.cache. property is also available as first-class function to all content objects. This skips the rendering even for content objects that evaluate stdWrap after rendering (e.g. COA).

Usage:

page = PAGE
page.10 = COA
page.10 {
        cache.key = coaout
        cache.lifetime = 60
        #stdWrap.cache.key = coastdWrap
        #stdWrap.cache.lifetime = 60
        10 = TEXT
        10 {
                cache.key = mycurrenttimestamp
                cache.lifetime = 60
                data = date : U
                strftime = %H:%M:%S
                noTrimWrap = |10: | |
        }
        20 = TEXT
        20 {
                data = date : U
                strftime = %H:%M:%S
                noTrimWrap = |20: | |
        }
}

The commented part is stdWrap.cache. property available since 4.7, that does not stop the rendering of COA including all sub-cObjects.

Additionally, stdWrap support is added to key, lifetime and tags.

If you've previously used the cache. property in your custom cObject, this will now fail, because cache. is unset to avoid double caching. You are encouraged to rely on the core methods for caching cObjects or rename your property.

stdWrap.cache continues to exists and can be used as before. However the top level stdWrap of certain cObjects (e.g. TEXT cObject) will not evaluate cache. as part of stdWrap, but before starting the rendering of the cObject. In conjunction the storing will happen after the stdWrap processing right before the content is returned.

Top level cache. will not evaluate the hook $GLOBALS['TYPO3_CONF_VARS']['SC_OPTIONS']['tslib/class.tslib_content.php']['stdWrap_cacheStore'] any more.