Magento Custom Caching with admin switch

Question

I am writing a module that uses some custom caching mechanism and i would like for my caching to be clearable from in the admin area along with the core Magento caching.

Answer 1

Magento makes this very easy for you, essentially just a few lines of code in your modules global config…

    
    
        
            
                Your modules cache label
                Description of your modules cache
                YOUR_MODULES_CACHE_TAGS
            
        
    
    

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The logic for checking if your cache is active or not would be along the lines of the following…

$cacheGroup = 'namespace_module';
$useCache = Mage::app()->useCache($cacheGroup);
if (true === $useCache) {
    // Cache is active
} else {
    // Cache is not active
}