<?php

/**
 * Elefant CMS - http://www.elefantcms.com/
 *
 * Copyright (c) 2011 Johnny Broadway
 * 
 * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
 * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
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 * to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
 * copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
 * furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
 * 
 * The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
 * all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
 * 
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 * IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
 * FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
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 * LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
 * OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN
 * THE SOFTWARE.
 */

/**
 * Extends Memcache with a method that takes a key, timeout, and a
 * function that will be called to produce the value if it is not
 * found in the cache.
 *
 * Based on Zane Ashby's idea posted here:
 *
 * http://demonastery.org/72/tiny-memcached-wrapper/
 */
class MemcacheExt extends Memcache {
	/**
	 * Takes a callback function that generates the value 
	 * if it's not found in the cache.
	 */
	public function cache ($key, $timeout, $function) {
		if (($val = $this->get ($key)) === false) {
			$val = $function ();
			$this->set ($key, $val, 0, $timeout);
		}
		return $val;
	}
}

?>