Re: [Case Closed - Idiot Found Behind Keyboard] Re: [PHP] APC - problems with CLI & odd return values from apc_clear_cache()

On Saturday 29 July 2006 05:47, Jochem Maas wrote: > Jon Anderson wrote: > > Just replying to the list on this one 'cause I'm pretty sure you're on > > it. :-) > > > > AFAIK, with many caches the web server cache and CLI caches are > > exclusive to each process. The APC manual seems to suggest that the CLI > > cache is not connected to the web server cache: > > > > From: http://ca.php.net/manual/en/ref.apc.php > > > > apc.enable_cli *integer* > > > > <http://ca.php.net/manual/en/language.types.integer.php> > > > > Mostly for testing and debugging. Setting this enables APC for the > > CLI version of PHP. Normally you wouldn't want to create, populate > > and tear down the APC cache on every CLI request, but for various > > test scenarios it is handy to be able to enable APC for the CLI > > version of APC easily. > > thanks, you are right - what I thought had been working all this time had > not, or atleast the code did work but it was clearing the cache belonging > to the CLI, which was a pointless act! > > I'm an idiot. > > but wanting to clear the webservers APC cache from a cmdline script doesn't > seem like such a stupid thing to want to do. but there is no nice way of > doing it; so now I do this at the end of my cmdline script instead: > > exec('apachectl -k graceful'); > > which sucks in so many ways it hurts .... but it does clear the APC cache You could create a script that basically just does apc_clear_cache() et all. and call it from lynx, curl, wget, etc. and throw that into a cron job. That would technically get you to call the script from the cli, but it should clear the webserver cache. Ray