Disabling cache on CakePHP 2.4.4

Question

I've read a bunch of Stackoverflow questions with the same goal: disabling cache in the CakePHP framework. However, none of these solutions has worked for me unfortunately.

My core.php now has these values, but the caching of controllers and views is still unbearably long for development:

Configure::write('debug', 2);
Configure::write('Cache.disable', true);
$duration = '+1 day';
if (Configure::read('debug') > 0) {
    $duration = '+1 seconds';
}

Solution 1

Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.5.3/conf/php.ini and may be in /Applications/MAMP/conf/php5.5.3/php.ini

comment out the line in this block! [OPcache]

spent three days on this

Solution 2

in app/Config/core.php

enable Configure::write('Cache.disable', true);

worked for me. after this no models and persistent cache generating.

Solution 3

See http://book.cakephp.org/2.0/en/controllers/request-response.html#CakeResponse::disableCache

So in your controller:

$this->response->disableCache();

either globally via beforeRender callback, or specifically per action.

Note that for IE8 comp. regarding this you might need to add an additional header as shown here.

Comments

[mark]

That's not how it is done in CakePHP. Use the response class.

[Moritz]

I've added this to my AppControler.php, but it is still caching. public function beforeFilter() { $this->response->disableCache(); }

[xtraorange]

You win the internet. I could kiss you right on the mouth.