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Today I needed to make a few changes to a custom hook that's been working fine for some time.  However, my changes are not being read -- the previous version of the code is running no matter what I do.  It seems that the php is being cached somewhere and I can't for the life of me figure out where!

What I've done so far:

-- checked that my custom resource directories are all pointing to the right place
-- flushed the Joomla cache
-- flushed my browser cache
-- flushed the Civicrm template cache (deleted everything in media/template_c) and hit the link
http://www.mysite.com/index.php?option=com_civicrm&task=civicrm/admin/setting/updateConfigBackend&reset=1

Is there some caching being done in the database that I'm not aware of???

Please help, tearing my hair out here!

Hi Hershel, thanks for the response.  I did try that -- first I renamed the file, then I deleted it completely.  The custom hook code still runs; I can see its output in the Civicrm log files.

Thanks for the confirmation that PHP code isn't cached; I thought that was the case but I wasn't completely sure.

I'm digging around now to see if I can locate any other copy anywhere else, but this is just a customHooks.php file that implements exactly one hook.  As far as I know there are no other customizations outside this custom folder.

Thanks again!

Hershel, I really appreciate your responses and I want to apologize for being a huge moron.

I finally searched the entire codebase of the website I'm working on and found another undocumented change by someone else.  The sinister thing was the changed file included a copy and paste of my original override file (including my custom log messages!) so it totally looked like a previous version was cached.

But I very much appreciate the heads up about the PHP code never being cached, that kept me from wasting a lot of time troubleshooting caching mechanisms and focusing on the code.

Ich bin auch froh, dass ich geholfen worden 

Aber schrecklich war's, dass er keine default Datei geaendert hat, aber eine neue eingestellt. Deswegen musste ich so lang suchen.  Pfui.