Posted by Matthew Weier O'Phinney on 04/07/05 05:32

* Cabbar Duzayak <cabbar@gmail.com>:
> Hi All,
>
> I am using PHP on Apache/Linux with mod_php4. I need to implement a
> lazy cache for some resource which should be updated say every 1 hour
> in a way that the first person who arrives after an hour will be
> updating the cache. As you can imagine, I need to implement a write
> lock in this case, the idea is:

<snip>

> What do you guys recommend?

PEAR's Cache_Lite package. Seriously -- they've already done this. Give
it a try; I use it regularly, and it *just* *works*.

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