<?php
/* -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
   $Id: xtc_get_db_cache.inc.php,v 1.1.1.1 2008/10/27 07:55:43 cvs Exp $   

   XT-Commerce - community made shopping
   http://www.xt-commerce.com

   Copyright (c) 2003 XT-Commerce
   -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
   based on: 
   (c) 2000-2001 The Exchange Project  (earlier name of osCommerce)
   (c) 2002-2003 osCommerce(cache.php,v 1.10 2003/02/11); www.oscommerce.com 
   (c) 2003	 nextcommerce (xtc_get_db_cache.inc.php,v 1.3 2003/08/13); www.nextcommerce.org

   Released under the GNU General Public License 
   ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
   
//! Get data from the cache or the database.
//  get_db_cache checks the cache for cached SQL data in $filename
//  or retreives it from the database is the cache is not present.
//  $SQL      -  The SQL query to exectue if needed.
//  $filename -  The name of the cache file.
//  $var      -  The variable to be filled.
//  $refresh  -  Optional.  If true, do not read from the cache.
  function get_db_cache($sql, &$var, $filename, $refresh = false){
    $var = array();

// check for the refresh flag and try to the data
    if (($refresh == true)|| !read_cache($var, $filename)) {
// Didn' get cache so go to the database.
//      $conn = mysql_connect("localhost", "apachecon", "apachecon");
      $res = xtc_db_query($sql);
//      if ($err = mysql_error()) trigger_error($err, E_USER_ERROR);
// loop through the results and add them to an array
      while ($rec = xtc_db_fetch_array($res)) {
        $var[] = $rec;
      }
// write the data to the file
      write_cache($var, $filename);
    }
  }

 ?>