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I've built a custom component, and I'm trying to make it a bit faster, and while I was rooting through model core files I saw that their getItems() uses a caching to reduce DB queries:

$store = $this->getStoreId();
if (isset($this->cache[$store]))
{
    return $this->cache[$store];
}

try
{
    // Load the list items and add the items to the internal cache.
    $this->cache[$store] = $this->_getList($this->_getListQuery(), $this->getStart(), $this->getState('list.limit'));
}

So I'm attempting to duplicate this for my component. Code is practically the same, but whenever I check isset($this->cache[$store]) it is always unset. I'm unsure if I'm having a problem fetching $this->cache[$store] or saving to it.

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  • Have you checked the PHP error logs? – Lodder♦ Aug 22 '17 at 13:25
  • Just poked around the log files and turned on Development mode for Error Reporting, still no messages. – Chaosxmk Aug 22 '17 at 15:47
  • Which version of Joomla? Which PHP version? Which cache handler? What's the cache time? – Lodder♦ Aug 22 '17 at 16:10
  • This is all running on Joomla! 3.7.5 and PHP 5.6.30. The cache handler is set to File with a cache time of 15 minutes. – Chaosxmk Aug 22 '17 at 19:12
  • Print out the $store variable and see what it is getting set to or if it is getting set at all. – Terry Carter Aug 22 '17 at 23:50
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In your component controller, check the display function:

public function display($cachable = false, $urlparams = false)
{    
    //...

    parent::display($cachable, $safeurlparams);

    return $this;
}

Change it to:

parent::display(true, $safeurlparams);

And test again.

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  • I tried forcing $cachable to true to no avail, but I did however see a spot where I might be able to investigate to help fix the problem. Will report back once I've had time to poke around and what not. – Chaosxmk Aug 23 '17 at 19:43

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