Completely Disable Cache For Dev

Yii 1.1 General Discussion
1

First off, I am completely brand new to yii, and my initial views of it are promising… until i hit this issue…

I have searched and seen others post "solutions" to this, but none work for me.

My set up is a completely fresh install of yii (only modding the index.php to show php errors and put yii in debug mode) using MAMP.

I open up view/site/index.php and put:


<h3>cache test 1</h3>

<h3><?php echo date('m/d/Y h:i:s a', time()) ?></h3>

… at the bottom and save. Refresh and i see what is expected. I change "cache test 1" to "cache test 2" and it does not update, but the PHP date echo updates. A minute of so later, the update gets applied.

I have tried adding:


'cache' => array(

	'class' => 'system.caching.CDummyCache'

),

… to the components array in main.php but it seems to do nothing. I have even tried to add:




Yii::app()->setComponent('cache', new CDummyCache());

… to the CController.php file in framework, but that also does not solve this problem…

The HTTP response is as expected, decorated with the proper ‘no-cache’:




Cache-Control →

Cache-Control

Tells all caching mechanisms from server to client whether they may cache this object. It is measured in seconds


no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0

Connection →Keep-Alive

Content-Length →2329

Content-Type →text/html

Date →Fri, 21 Feb 2014 11:35:13 GMT

Expires →Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT

Keep-Alive →timeout=5, max=100

Pragma →no-cache

Server →Apache/2.2.25 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.25 OpenSSL/0.9.8y DAV/2 PHP/5.5.3

X-Powered-By →PHP/5.5.3

So the question is, how do the yii guru’s dev under these conditions? There has to be solution to this instead of waiting a minute to see your changes :)

Thanks :)

2

seems like cache/ttl in your php opcode cacher (APC, eAccelerator, etc) - only opcode cacher can delay ‘seeing’ physical changes in files on disk when there is CDummyCache in your app and template is rendered every time (time on rendered view changes)

3

You are correct in that is beyond the scope of yii. I just created a blah.php and performed the similar test and the problem persists. Now time to figure out how to disable it :)

UPDATE **

Your answer pointed me in the right direction, I thank you! :)

Here is the solution for anyone having this issue with MAMP:

h**p://stackoverflow.com/questions/19073270/stop-caching-for-php-5-5-3-in-mamp