UNICACHE

An agnostic, caching framework for PHP, Node.js, Browser and Python

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python implementation in progress..

version 1.2.0

see also:

• ModelView a simple, fast, powerful and flexible MVVM framework for JavaScript
• tico a tiny, super-simple MVC framework for PHP
• LoginManager a simple, barebones agnostic login manager for PHP, JavaScript, Python
• SimpleCaptcha a simple, image-based, mathematical captcha with increasing levels of difficulty for PHP, JavaScript, Python
• Dromeo a flexible, and powerful agnostic router for PHP, JavaScript, Python
• PublishSubscribe a simple and flexible publish-subscribe pattern implementation for PHP, JavaScript, Python
• Importer simple class & dependency manager and loader for PHP, JavaScript, Python
• Contemplate a fast and versatile isomorphic template engine for PHP, JavaScript, Python
• HtmlWidget html widgets, made as simple as possible, both client and server, both desktop and mobile, can be used as (template) plugins and/or standalone for PHP, JavaScript, Python (can be used as plugins for Contemplate)
• Paginator simple and flexible pagination controls generator for PHP, JavaScript, Python
• Formal a simple and versatile (Form) Data validation framework based on Rules for PHP, JavaScript, Python
• Dialect a cross-vendor & cross-platform SQL Query Builder, based on GrammarTemplate, for PHP, JavaScript, Python
• DialectORM an Object-Relational-Mapper (ORM) and Object-Document-Mapper (ODM), based on Dialect, for PHP, JavaScript, Python
• Unicache a simple and flexible agnostic caching framework, supporting various platforms, for PHP, JavaScript, Python
• Xpresion a simple and flexible eXpression parser engine (with custom functions and variables support), based on GrammarTemplate, for PHP, JavaScript, Python
• Regex Analyzer/Composer Regular Expression Analyzer and Composer for PHP, JavaScript, Python

Contents

• How to use
• Types of Caching Supported
• Todo
• ChangeLog
• Notes

How to Use

PHP

This is a caching framework for applications that is agnostic and total.

This means that one can use it easily in her web applications that use any given framework or not use any framework at all.

Total means that the whole requested page is being cached (if used as such), but one can use the cache classes and factories to cache specifiec parts of the requested page also and/or other data.

The framework is configured by a config file which easily gets together all parameters, like type of caching, time to live, post-cache user defined filtering and per-page user defined cache disable.

A demo is included with the package. One simply adds an include directive and bang you have the most advanced caching.

Node.js

Supports both node-style callback-based methods (nodebacks) plus promise-based methods (if Promises are supported). Each method (i.e get, put, remove, clear, gc) has an associated method that returns a promise (i.e getPromise, putPromise, removePromise, clearPromise, gcPromise). Also some cache types (i.e memory-based and file-based) support synchronous operations as well (if no callback is provided synchronous processing takes place).

Browser, Client-side

Supports both callback-based methods plus promise-based methods (if Promises are supported). Each method (i.e get, put, remove, clear, gc) has an associated method that returns a promise (i.e getPromise, putPromise, removePromise, clearPromise, gcPromise). Also some cache types (i.e memory-based, cookie-based, webStorage-based) support synchronous operations as well (if no callback is provided synchronous processing takes place).

Types of Caching Supported

server-side

• In-Memory caching (default) PHP + Node
• File-based caching PHP + Node
• APC PHP only
• APCU PHP only (requires apcu extension)
• XCache PHP only (requires xcache extension)
• Memcached PHP (requires Memcache or Memcached extension) + Node (requires node-memcached module, .clear() method in progress)
• Redis PHP + Node (requires node-redis module)
• it is easy to extend to other methods as well.

client-side, browser

• In-Memory caching (default)
• Cookie-based caching
• LocalStorage
• SessionStorage
• IndexedDb-based caching
• WebSql-based caching (supported only on some browers, eg Chrome)
• it is easy to extend to other methods as well.

TODO

• add python implementations
• add client-side/browser support for webSql caching [DONE]
• add support for Redis [DONE]
• add support for xCache [DONE]
• node.js and browser cache manipulation methods use standard callbacks (i.e as last argument w/ signature: function(err,result)) [DONE] and also promises (via same method names with "Promise" suffix) [DONE]

ChangeLog

Notes

Part of the (php) code was originally based on code from: http://www.rooftopsolutions.nl/blog/107

UNICACHE is also part of PHP classes http://www.phpclasses.org/package/7530-PHP-Cache-data-in-files-APC-or-Memcached.html