Preventing Cache Reload In Case of Database Failure?

2008-08-23 Thread aranworld
This is what is currently happening to a site I have: 1) person visits site's home page, which contains an element which displays the top news stories from the database 2) since the element is set to be cached, a cached view file is set with an expiration of 3 hours ... 2 hours later ... 3) the

Re: Preventing Cache Reload In Case of Database Failure?

2008-08-23 Thread Chris Hartjes
On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 4:12 AM, aranworld [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to get Cake to not overwrite an old cached view, if it can detect that there was a database connectivity problem? Well, it seems to me that this might actually be an application logic problem. Here's why:

Re: Preventing Cache Reload In Case of Database Failure?

2008-08-23 Thread majna
You can check with ConnectionManager if database is connected (in app_controller __construct() ) if not connected use clearCache() to clear your views cache. On Aug 23, 10:12 am, aranworld [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is what is currently happening to a site I have: 1) person visits site's