View caching

Caching your views is an important step towards improving the loading time of your application as content is served faster. This can have a noticeable effect on users, as they get to content and features quicker, making them a bit happier.

In this recipe, we'll build an example scenario that shows off some of the base caching features of CakePHP.

Getting ready

First, open your core.php file in app/Config/, make sure the following line is not commented out, and set it to true:

Configure::write('Cache.check', true);

This configuration option enables and generates cached view files for requests.

Also, in your bootstrap.php file in app/Config/, make sure that CacheDispatcher is set in your Dispatcher.filters configuration. Take a look at the following example:

Configure::write('Dispatcher.filters', array(
  'AssetDispatcher',
  'CacheDispatcher'
));

We'll then need a controller to work with. So, create a TimestampsController.php file in...