Tickets :: Comment on [#13085] Use memcache instead of distributed hashtable in $conf[cache][driver]

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Comment	> The distributed hashtable driver doesn't support the lifetime > argument and as such is not a very good choice for the > $conf[cache][driver]: > > /** > * NOTE: This driver ignores the lifetime argument. > */ > public function get($key, $lifetime = 0) > { > return $this->_hash->get($this->_params['prefix'] . $key); > } > > This breaks applications that require the cache driver to tell the > information is expired. For instance, > Horde/Service/Weather/WeatherUnderground.php will only refresh the > information if it is expired. This never happens with the distributed > hashtable, because the lifetime is ignored and once the data is > retrieved, the same (stale) data will be served indefinitely. > > Before the distributed hashtable was introduced, it was possible to > directly configure memcache as a cache driver (which does support the > timeout variable). It would be great if this functionality was > restored here, since some applications seem to depend on the timeout > to be honored.
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