How to cache custom data into Magento

Caching data in Magento can have a significant impact on the performance of your site. Here’s how a few lines of code you can easily cache any data type.

<?php
// ...
$cacheId = 'my_cache_id';
if (false !== ($data = Mage::app()->getCache()->load($cacheId))) {
    $data = unserialize($data);
} else {
    $data = $this->getMyHeavyData();
    Mage::app()->getCache()->save(serialize($data), $cacheId);
}
//...

And that’s all ;)

7 Responses to “How to cache custom data into Magento”

  1. mohammed abdelrahman says:
    Monday September 10th, 2012 at 11:45 AM

    Thanks!

    Reply
  2. Vlad N. says:
    Thursday September 26th, 2013 at 02:01 PM

    Thanks dude, this helped me alot.

    Reply
  3. Luis says:
    Friday November 15th, 2013 at 02:18 AM

    Hello,

    Where do you use this lines?

    THank you for your answer.
    Cheers

    Reply
  4. Joshua Jarman says:
    Thursday May 29th, 2014 at 11:49 AM

    How can one check if a cache key is enabled or disabled? I want to tag my caching onto BLOCK_HTML caching and have it only happen if that is enabled.

    Reply
  5. MAXIME HURAN says:
    Wednesday August 31st, 2016 at 11:34 AM

    I found how to proceed :

    $cacheId = ‘my_cache_id';

    if (Mage::app()->useCache(‘block_html)) {
    if (false !== ($data = Mage::app()->loadCache($cacheId))) {
    /* PROCESS CACHE */
    $mydatas = unserialize($data);
    } else {
    /* PROCESS NO CACHE */
    $mydatas = “toto”;
    Mage::app()->saveCache(serialize($fapiResponse), $cacheId, array(‘block_html’), 86400);
    }
    } else {
    /* PROCESS NO CACHE */
    }

    If you are in a block inherits Mage_Core_Block_Abstract you can use :
    self::CACHE_GROUP instead of “block_html”
    $this->getCacheTags instead of array(‘block_html’)

    Reply
  6. Asim Mehmood says:
    Tuesday March 21st, 2017 at 05:00 PM

    Thanks a lot. ….

    Reply

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