Added get_loaded_driver() method to Cache.php; updated docs.

2 files changed, 20 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/system/libraries/Cache/Cache.php b/system/libraries/Cache/Cache.php
index b56f33e74..676375c37 100644
--- a/system/libraries/Cache/Cache.php
+++ b/system/libraries/Cache/Cache.php
@@ -253,4 +253,14 @@ class CI_Cache extends CI_Driver_Library {
 
 		return $support[$driver];
 	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Get currently loaded driver
+	 *
+	 * @return string
+	 */
+	public function get_loaded_driver()
+	{
+		return $this->_adapter;
+	}
 }
diff --git a/user_guide_src/source/libraries/caching.rst b/user_guide_src/source/libraries/caching.rst
index 6621c94ea..2226b4281 100644
--- a/user_guide_src/source/libraries/caching.rst
+++ b/user_guide_src/source/libraries/caching.rst
@@ -188,6 +188,16 @@ Class Reference
 		.. note:: The information returned and the structure of the data is dependent
 			on which adapter is being used.
 
+	.. php:method:: get_loaded_driver()
+
+		:returns:	Loaded driver name, based on initialization config ('apc', 'apcu', 'dummy', 'file', 'memcached', 'redis' or 'wincache')
+		:rtype:	string
+
+		This method will return the caching driver currently used after initialization.
+		::
+
+			echo $this->cache->get_loaded_driver(); // Will return something like "file"
+
 *******
 Drivers
 *******