Caching data in PHP

Question

I\'m developing a site in PHP which has some complex SQL queries and I would like to implement a caching feature to reduce the load on the database.

I\'m just wonderin

Answer 1

You can implement caching on multiple places in your application:

• you can implement conditional GET (ETag and Last-Modified HTTP headers)
• do data caching with the mentioned solutions (Cache_Lite, Zend_Cache, APC) with multiple backends (file, memcached, shared memory)
• you can cache the template files as you said (Smarty)