Zend Framework University

Joey Rivera wrote good introductory post about using Zend_Cache and caching in general. He explains what is caching, what are the benefits of caching (giving real numbers to compare) and shows how Zend_Cache can be use to cache different things in any project, not only Zend Framework based.

When ever possible, it’s more efficient to serve a static file or static content. We use cache to accomplish this. In this post I’m going to talk about caching files and database queries to local files on the server. (…) There are different ways to achieve this. I personally use Zend Framework on my projects so I’ll be using Zend_Cache in my examples. I will only be using Zend_Cache as a standalone module, not the entire framework. This way, those of you who don’t use Zend Framework can still follow this guide.

If you are new to caching and want to learn how and when to use it, this article was written exactly for you.