Relocate tmp folder on Symfony2

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Relocate tmp folder on Symfony2

Doing Symfony2 in Vagrant and VirtualBox? Truth is that vboxfs is so called "network" filesystem and performance is poor. From time to time Symfony2 also experiences issues with cache:clear because of file locking. One solution for this is to move tmp folder outside the project to system temporary file folder.

AppKernel.php

<?php

use Symfony\Component\HttpKernel\Kernel;

class AppKernel extends Kernel
{

    /* ... everything else is skipped ... */

    public function getCacheDir()
    {
        if ($this->environment == 'dev') {
            // use md5 of app root to avoid clashes with other Symfony2 apps
            return '/tmp/'.md5($this->rootDir).'/cache/'.$this->environment;
        } else {
            return parent::getCacheDir();
        }
    }
}

In this case we can't use Symfony IDE autocomplete (for example on PHPStorm)