🧰 Laravel-Like Cache Wrapper for Core PHP

A fully-featured Laravel-style Cache Wrapper built in Core PHP using the power of Symfony's Cache component. This package provides an elegant and fluent caching API that mirrors Laravel's Cache facade, making it easy for developers to manage caching in procedural or object-oriented PHP applications outside of Laravel.

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📌 Why This Package?

Laravel provides a very expressive and flexible API for caching, but it's deeply coupled with the Laravel framework. This package allows you to bring that elegant Laravel cache experience into any Core PHP project without requiring Laravel at all.

Built for:

• Developers transitioning from Laravel to raw PHP
• Lightweight or micro PHP apps that need efficient caching
• Custom frameworks and standalone apps

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🧠 Why a Wrapper?

Wrapping an existing library like Symfony's Cache component helps abstract complexity and create a clean, readable, Laravel-style API without reinventing the wheel. Symfony's cache is PSR-6/16 compliant and battle-tested in production, making it an excellent backend for this wrapper.

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⚙️ Requirements

• PHP 8.0 or later
• Composer
• Symfony Cache Component

Install Symfony Cache:

composer require symfony/cache

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📦 Installation

1. Clone or Require

If you're using Composer for your project:

composer require uxmansarwar/cache

If you're manually integrating:

git clone https://github.com/uxmansarwar/cache.git

Place src/Cache.php in your preferred directory and include it with Composer autoload.

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🧪 Initialization

Before using the cache, initialize it:

use UxmanSarwar\Cache;

Cache::init(
    namespace: 'my_app', 
    defaultLifetime: 3600, 
    directory: __DIR__ . '/storage/cache'
);

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🛠 Full API Usage Examples

🔍 Get Value from Cache

$value = Cache::get('user_1');

📝 Put Value into Cache

Cache::put('user_1', ['name' => 'John'], 600); // 10 mins

♾️ Store Permanently

Cache::forever('site_name', 'My Awesome App');

❓ Check if Key Exists

if (Cache::has('user_1')) {
    echo "User found!";
}

❌ Forget a Cache Key

Cache::forget('user_1');

🧹 Flush Entire Cache

Cache::flush();

🦁 Remember (Lazy Load + Cache)

$data = Cache::remember('config_data', 3600, function () {
    return expensiveFetch();
});

🦁 Remember Forever

$data = Cache::rememberForever('constants', function () {
    return loadConstants();
});

🧪 Pull and Delete

$data = Cache::pull('temp_code'); // returns and deletes it

🪮 Add if Not Exists

$wasAdded = Cache::add('otp_123', 456789, 120);

🕾️ Increment a Value

$newValue = Cache::increment('views', 1);

🔾 Decrement a Value

$newValue = Cache::decrement('downloads', 2);

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🧱 Tests & Development Setup

Install Dev Dependencies

composer require --dev pestphp/pest phpstan/phpstan

PestPHP Setup

./vendor/bin/pest --init

This will create the tests/ directory and Pest.php bootstrap file.

PHPStan Setup

Create phpstan.neon:

includes: - vendor/phpstan/phpstan/conf/bleedingEdge.neon parameters: level: 8 paths: - src - tests

Add Test Scripts to composer.json

"scripts": {
    "test": "pest",
    "stan": "phpstan analyse"
}

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📚 Example Pest Tests

File: tests/CacheTest.php

<?php

declare(strict_types=1);

use UxmanSarwar\Cache;

beforeAll(function () {
    Cache::init(
        namespace: 'testing',
        defaultLifetime: 3600,
        directory: __DIR__ . '/../storage/cache'
    );
});

test('put and get works', function () {
    Cache::put('test_key', 'Hello', 10);
    expect(Cache::get('test_key'))->toBe('Hello');
});

test('forget removes a key', function () {
    Cache::put('temp_key', 'Temp', 10);
    Cache::forget('temp_key');
    expect(Cache::has('temp_key'))->toBeFalse();
});

test('remember lazily loads and stores value', function () {
    $result = Cache::remember('lazy_key', 60, fn () => 'LazyValue');
    expect($result)->toBe('LazyValue');
});

test('pull fetches and deletes value', function () {
    Cache::put('pull_key', 'Once', 60);
    $value = Cache::pull('pull_key');
    expect($value)->toBe('Once');
    expect(Cache::has('pull_key'))->toBeFalse();
});

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🧱 Directory Structure

cache/
├── src/
│   └── Cache.php
├── tests/
│   └── CacheTest.php
├── storage/
│   └── cache/ (default)
├── composer.json
├── phpstan.neon
└── README.md

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🎯 Planned Features

• File-based tagging (like Laravel's tagged cache)
• Redis/Memcached drivers
• PSR-16 compatibility layer
• Cache events and logging

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🧑‍💻 Contribution

Pull requests and issues are welcome! Feel free to fork and improve. Please make sure to write tests and maintain existing code style.

git clone https://github.com/uxmansarwar/cache.git
cd cache
composer install

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📜 License

This project is open-sourced under the MIT License.

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❤️ Credits

This wrapper is built using the power of Symfony Cache and inspired by Laravel's elegant Cache facade.

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🙌 Support

If this package helped you, consider ⭐ starring the repo and sharing it with your fellow PHP developers!