diff --git a/lib/Cake/Cache/Engine/WincacheEngine.php b/lib/Cake/Cache/Engine/WincacheEngine.php
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+<?php
+/**
+ * Wincache storage engine for cache. 
+ *
+ * Supports wincache 1.1.0 and higher.
+ *
+ * PHP 5
+ *
+ * CakePHP(tm) : Rapid Development Framework (http://cakephp.org)
+ * Copyright 2005-2011, Cake Software Foundation, Inc. (http://cakefoundation.org)
+ *
+ * Licensed under The MIT License
+ * Redistributions of files must retain the above copyright notice.
+ *
+ * @copyright     Copyright 2005-2011, Cake Software Foundation, Inc. (http://cakefoundation.org)
+ * @link          http://cakephp.org CakePHP(tm) Project
+ * @package       cake.libs.cache
+ * @since         CakePHP(tm) v 1.2.0.4933
+ * @license       MIT License (http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php)
+ */
+
+/**
+ * Wincache storage engine for cache
+ *
+ * @package       cake.libs.cache
+ */
+class WincacheEngine extends CacheEngine {
+
+/**
+ * Initialize the Cache Engine
+ *
+ * Called automatically by the cache frontend
+ * To reinitialize the settings call Cache::engine('EngineName', [optional] settings = array());
+ *
+ * @param array $settings array of setting for the engine
+ * @return boolean True if the engine has been successfully initialized, false if not
+ * @see CacheEngine::__defaults
+ */
+	public function init($settings = array()) {
+		parent::init(array_merge(array(
+			'engine' => 'Wincache',
+			'prefix' => Inflector::slug(APP_DIR) . '_'),
+		$settings));
+		return function_exists('wincache_ucache_info');
+	}
+
+/**
+ * Write data for key into cache
+ *
+ * @param string $key Identifier for the data
+ * @param mixed $value Data to be cached
+ * @param integer $duration How long to cache the data, in seconds
+ * @return boolean True if the data was successfully cached, false on failure
+ */
+	public function write($key, $value, $duration) {
+		$expires = time() + $duration;
+
+		$data = array(
+			$key . '_expires' => $expires,
+			$key => $value
+		);
+		$result = wincache_ucache_set($data, null, $duration);
+		return empty($result);
+	}
+
+/**
+ * Read a key from the cache
+ *
+ * @param string $key Identifier for the data
+ * @return mixed The cached data, or false if the data doesn't exist, has expired, or if 
+ *     there was an error fetching it
+ */
+	public function read($key) {
+		$time = time();
+		$cachetime = intval(wincache_ucache_get($key . '_expires'));
+		if ($cachetime < $time || ($time + $this->settings['duration']) < $cachetime) {
+			return false;
+		}
+		return wincache_ucache_get($key);
+	}
+
+/**
+ * Increments the value of an integer cached key
+ *
+ * @param string $key Identifier for the data
+ * @param integer $offset How much to increment
+ * @return New incremented value, false otherwise
+ */
+	public function increment($key, $offset = 1) {
+		return wincache_ucache_inc($key, $offset);
+	}
+
+/**
+ * Decrements the value of an integer cached key
+ *
+ * @param string $key Identifier for the data
+ * @param integer $offset How much to subtract
+ * @return New decremented value, false otherwise
+ */
+	public function decrement($key, $offset = 1) {
+		return wincache_ucache_dec($key, $offset);
+	}
+
+/**
+ * Delete a key from the cache
+ *
+ * @param string $key Identifier for the data
+ * @return boolean True if the value was successfully deleted, false if it didn't exist or couldn't be removed
+ */
+	public function delete($key) {
+		return wincache_ucache_delete($key);
+	}
+
+/**
+ * Delete all keys from the cache.  This will clear every cache value stored 
+ * in wincache.
+ *
+ * @return boolean True if the cache was successfully cleared, false otherwise
+ */
+	public function clear($check) {
+		return wincache_ucache_clear();
+	}
+
+}
diff --git a/lib/Cake/Test/Case/Cache/Engine/WincacheEngineTest.php b/lib/Cake/Test/Case/Cache/Engine/WincacheEngineTest.php
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+<?php
+/**
+ * WincacheEngineTest file
+ *
+ * PHP 5
+ *
+ * CakePHP(tm) Tests <http://book.cakephp.org/view/1196/Testing>
+ * Copyright 2005-2011, Cake Software Foundation, Inc. (http://cakefoundation.org)
+ *
+ * Licensed under The MIT License
+ * Redistributions of files must retain the above copyright notice
+ *
+ * @copyright     Copyright 2005-2011, Cake Software Foundation, Inc. (http://cakefoundation.org)
+ * @link          http://book.cakephp.org/view/1196/Testing CakePHP(tm) Tests
+ * @package       cake.tests.cases.libs.cache
+ * @since         CakePHP(tm) v 1.2.0.5434
+ * @license       MIT License (http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php)
+ */
+
+App::uses('Cache', 'Cache');
+
+/**
+ * WincacheEngineTest class
+ *
+ * @package       cake.tests.cases.libs.cache
+ */
+class WincacheEngineTest extends CakeTestCase {
+
+/**
+ * setUp method
+ *
+ * @access public
+ * @return void
+ */
+	public function setUp() {
+		$this->skipIf(!function_exists('wincache_ucache_set'), 'Wincache is not installed or configured properly.');
+		$this->_cacheDisable = Configure::read('Cache.disable');
+		Configure::write('Cache.disable', false);
+		Cache::config('wincache', array('engine' => 'Wincache', 'prefix' => 'cake_'));
+	}
+
+/**
+ * tearDown method
+ *
+ * @access public
+ * @return void
+ */
+	public function tearDown() {
+		Configure::write('Cache.disable', $this->_cacheDisable);
+		Cache::drop('wincache');
+		Cache::config('default');
+	}
+
+/**
+ * testReadAndWriteCache method
+ *
+ * @access public
+ * @return void
+ */
+	public function testReadAndWriteCache() {
+		Cache::set(array('duration' => 1), 'wincache');
+
+		$result = Cache::read('test', 'wincache');
+		$expecting = '';
+		$this->assertEqual($result, $expecting);
+
+		$data = 'this is a test of the emergency broadcasting system';
+		$result = Cache::write('test', $data, 'wincache');
+		var_dump(wincache_ucache_get('cake_test'));
+		$this->assertTrue($result);
+
+		$result = Cache::read('test', 'wincache');
+		$expecting = $data;
+		$this->assertEqual($result, $expecting);
+
+		Cache::delete('test', 'wincache');
+	}
+
+/**
+ * testExpiry method
+ *
+ * @access public
+ * @return void
+ */
+	public function testExpiry() {
+		Cache::set(array('duration' => 1), 'wincache');
+
+		$result = Cache::read('test', 'wincache');
+		$this->assertFalse($result);
+
+		$data = 'this is a test of the emergency broadcasting system';
+		$result = Cache::write('other_test', $data, 'wincache');
+		$this->assertTrue($result);
+
+		sleep(2);
+		$result = Cache::read('other_test', 'wincache');
+		$this->assertFalse($result);
+
+		Cache::set(array('duration' =>  1), 'wincache');
+
+		$data = 'this is a test of the emergency broadcasting system';
+		$result = Cache::write('other_test', $data, 'wincache');
+		$this->assertTrue($result);
+
+		sleep(2);
+		$result = Cache::read('other_test', 'wincache');
+		$this->assertFalse($result);
+
+		sleep(2);
+		$result = Cache::read('other_test', 'wincache');
+		$this->assertFalse($result);
+	}
+
+/**
+ * testDeleteCache method
+ *
+ * @access public
+ * @return void
+ */
+	public function testDeleteCache() {
+		$data = 'this is a test of the emergency broadcasting system';
+		$result = Cache::write('delete_test', $data, 'wincache');
+		$this->assertTrue($result);
+
+		$result = Cache::delete('delete_test', 'wincache');
+		$this->assertTrue($result);
+	}
+
+/**
+ * testDecrement method
+ *
+ * @access public
+ * @return void
+ */
+	public function testDecrement() {
+		$this->skipIf(
+			!function_exists('wincache_ucache_dec'),
+			'No wincache_ucache_dec() function, cannot test decrement().'
+		);
+
+		$result = Cache::write('test_decrement', 5, 'wincache');
+		$this->assertTrue($result);
+
+		$result = Cache::decrement('test_decrement', 1, 'wincache');
+		$this->assertEqual(4, $result);
+
+		$result = Cache::read('test_decrement', 'wincache');
+		$this->assertEqual(4, $result);
+
+		$result = Cache::decrement('test_decrement', 2, 'wincache');
+		$this->assertEqual(2, $result);
+
+		$result = Cache::read('test_decrement', 'wincache');
+		$this->assertEqual(2, $result);
+		
+	}
+
+/**
+ * testIncrement method
+ *
+ * @access public
+ * @return void
+ */
+	public function testIncrement() {
+		$this->skipIf(
+			!function_exists('wincache_ucache_inc'),
+			'No wincache_inc() function, cannot test increment().'
+		);
+
+		$result = Cache::write('test_increment', 5, 'wincache');
+		$this->assertTrue($result);
+
+		$result = Cache::increment('test_increment', 1, 'wincache');
+		$this->assertEqual(6, $result);
+
+		$result = Cache::read('test_increment', 'wincache');
+		$this->assertEqual(6, $result);
+
+		$result = Cache::increment('test_increment', 2, 'wincache');
+		$this->assertEqual(8, $result);
+
+		$result = Cache::read('test_increment', 'wincache');
+		$this->assertEqual(8, $result);
+	}
+
+/**
+ * test the clearing of cache keys
+ *
+ * @return void
+ */
+	public function testClear() {
+		Cache::write('some_value', 'value', 'wincache');
+
+		$result = Cache::clear(false, 'wincache');
+		$this->assertTrue($result);
+		$this->assertFalse(Cache::read('some_value', 'wincache'));
+	}
+}