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title: Flushable summary: Allows a class to define it's own flush functionality.
Flushable
Introduction
Allows a class to define it's own flush functionality, which is triggered when flush=1 is requested in the URL.
[api:FlushMiddleware] is run before a request is made, calling flush() statically on all
implementors of [api:Flushable].
Usage
To use this API, you need to make your class implement [api:Flushable], and define a flush() static function,
this defines the actions that need to be executed on a flush request.
Using with Cache
This example uses [api:Cache] in some custom code, and the same cache is cleaned on flush:
:::php
<?php
class MyClass extends DataObject implements Flushable {
public static function flush() {
Cache::factory('mycache')->clean(Zend_Cache::CLEANING_MODE_ALL);
}
public function MyCachedContent() {
$cache = Cache::factory('mycache')
$something = $cache->load('mykey');
if(!$something) {
$something = 'value to be cached';
$cache->save($something, 'mykey');
}
return $something;
}
}
Using with filesystem
Another example, some temporary files are created in a directory in assets, and are deleted on flush. This would be
useful in an example like GD or Imagick generating resampled images, but we want to delete any cached images on
flush so they are re-created on demand.
:::php
<?php
class MyClass extends DataObject implements Flushable {
public static function flush() {
foreach(glob(ASSETS_PATH . '/_tempfiles/*.jpg') as $file) {
unlink($file);
}
}
}