HOW TO CLEAR DRUPAL’S CACHE
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To create a page Drupal needs to make several database queries. This can
slow down websites with a lot of traffic. To make websites
faster Drupal stores web pages in a cache.
It is a good practice to clear caches when moving a site from one host to
another.
Clearing the caches can also useful when installing new modules or
themes, and as a first step in troubleshooting. Clearing caches is relatively
harmless. Sites might slow down for a bit afterwards while the cache fills
back up.
Note that there are sometimes caches other than the Drupal cache that
can affect website performance. For example, some hosting services use a
cache called “Varnish” to improve performance. Also, individual web
browsers maintain their own caches on a user’s computer or device.
CLEARING THE CACHE
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The easiest way to clear the Drupal cache is to go to Administration
> Configuration > Development > Performance;
Click the button “Clear all caches“;
OTHER WAYS OF CLEARING THE
CACHE
DRUSH
Run drush cc all.
To clear the cache, even if Drupal is broken, you can run the following
command:
drush sql-query “DELETE FROM cache”
sql-query executes sql queries in the database where Drupal is installed.
RUN UPDATE.PHP
Running update.php (http://example.com/update.php) is another way of
clearing the cache. If you cannot login or have no user 1 rights you will
need to set $update_free_access = TRUE; first in
/sites/default/settings.php.
Do not forget to set this back to FALSE afterwards.
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A PHP SNIPPET
Use the following code to clear specific cache type from within a module.
If you want to clear all the caches similar to the functionality of the button
on the “Performance” page, call this snippet for all tables beginning with
the word “cache”.
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<?php
db_query(“DELETE FROM {cache};”);
?>
IN THE DATABASE
Use phpmyadmin or another tool to access the database tables
and TRUNCATE (empty, not remove) all tables that start with cache_.
A PHP-FILE TO CLEAR CACHES AND REBUILD
THE ROUTING TABLES
Be careful not to leave this on the server as anyone can clear caches if
they know the file name. Create a file named clear.php with the code
below. Place the file in the Drupal base directory and run it by browsing
to http://example.com/clear.php.
Drupal 6
<?php
include_once ‘./includes/bootstrap.inc’;
drupal_bootstrap(DRUPAL_BOOTSTRAP_FULL);
drupal_flush_all_caches();
?>
Drupal 7 version
<?php
// define static var
define(‘DRUPAL_ROOT’, getcwd());
// include bootstrap
include_once(‘./includes/bootstrap.inc’);
// initialize stuff
drupal_bootstrap(DRUPAL_BOOTSTRAP_FULL);
// clear cache
drupal_flush_all_caches();
?>
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CLEARING SPECIFIC ENTRIES IN
CACHE TABLES
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The Drupal cache API can be used to clear specific items. Caching back
ends can be switched (tomemcache, to flat files, etc.) without having to
rewrite any code.
<?php
cache_clear_all(‘content:’ . $MYNID, ‘cache_content’, TRUE);
?>
The example above clears all items from cache that start with
‘content:$MYNID*’. To ONLY remove one specific row, drop the
$wildcard parameter (the “TRUE” statement in the function call) and
change the format of the first parameter to omit the asterisk, which
functions as a wildcard.
<?php
cache_clear_all(‘content:’ . $MYNID . ‘:’ . $MYNID, ‘cache_content’);
?>
HOW TO CLEAR MAIN CACHE TABLES
THROUGH MYSQL QUERY
We can delete the Drupal cache through mysql also. For that you need to
use following mysql commands in phpmyAdmin or
through mysql command line. The main cache tables are the following:
DELETE FROM cache;
DELETE FROM cache_filters;
DELETE FROM cache_menu;
DELETE FROM cache_page;
DELETE FROM watchdog;
NOTE: the watchdog module monitors your system and records system
events in a log (in the watchdog table) you can review. This helps you get
a quick overview of activity on your site.
Since the log records events in sequence, it can also be useful for
debugging site errors. It can grows over 300MB periodically if Drupal is
configured to log all info.
Note that starting with Drupal 6.x,
Watchdog has been replaced by the dblog and syslog modules. Dblog is
similar to watchdog; Syslog allows Drupal’s logging to be integrated
with the server’s syslog facility.
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CLEAR CACHE FROM PHPMYADMIN
To clear the Drupal’s cache from phpMyadmin select all tabels those
begin with cache as image below:
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After you’ve sent the deletion command you will be directed to a
confirmation page with sql statements like this:
Do you really want to:
TRUNCATE `cache`;
TRUNCATE `cache_apachesolr`;
TRUNCATE `cache_block`;
TRUNCATE `cache_content`;
TRUNCATE `cache_filter`;
TRUNCATE `cache_form`;
TRUNCATE `cache_menu`;
TRUNCATE `cache_page`;
TRUNCATE `cache_path`;
TRUNCATE `cache_rules`;
TRUNCATE `cache_update`;
TRUNCATE `cache_views`;
TRUNCATE `cache_views_data`;
Confirm clicking OK and the DB cache will be cleared.
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