exists() public method
Checks whether a specified key exists in the cache.
This can be faster than getting the value from the cache if the data is big. In case a cache does not support this feature natively, this method will try to simulate it but has no performance improvement over getting it. Note that this method does not check whether the dependency associated with the cached data, if there is any, has changed. So a call to get() may return false while exists returns true.
public boolean exists ( $key ) | ||
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$key | mixed |
A key identifying the cached value. This can be a simple string or a complex data structure consisting of factors representing the key. |
return | boolean |
True if a value exists in cache, false if the value is not in the cache or expired. |
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