Ability to set default expiration time for all Cache keys

[foremtehan]

I'm working on a project which i found my self doing this :

Cache::put('thing', 'data', now()->addHours(5));

Cache::put('thing1', 'data', now()->addHours(5));

Cache::put('thing2', 'data', now()->addHours(5));

...

So it would be nice if we could set default expiration in AppServiceProvider for Cache facade, if the $ttl didnt provided use the default value.

[joelbutcher]

@foremtehan The default is 'indefinitely'

[foremtehan]

@joelbutcher Ok But I started this thread to gives a idea to manually set our default instead of "indefintely"

Btw in new version i think this is 10 year not indefinitely

[foremtehan]

Something like:

public function boot()
{
    Cache::setDefaultExpiration(now()->addHours(5));
}

@paras-malhotra what do you think ?

[paras-malhotra]

I'm not sure what the use case would be here. I believe most cache items would need specific TTLs (e.g. if you're caching a static homepage whose content may change daily, you might want to use 24 hours. Compare that with caching say user data queries, which would probably need a much lower TTL). Also, a default cache value may actually introduce problems such as cache stampedes when a lot of cache values expire at the exact same time.