Hello,

Is there a way to store them within the ezdbfile / data tables ?

Yes, you will need to write your own file handler that will use cluster api instead of direct file calls.

To achieve this, a class ezsiclusterfilehandler can be written in folder classes/filehandlers/cluster , defining how to store and delete using cluster api. It should contain something like :

   public function storeFile( $directory, $fileName, $fileContents )


   {


       $filePath = 'var/'.$directory.'/'.$fileName;


       $clusterFileHandler = eZClusterFileHandler::instance();


       $clusterFileHandler->fileStoreContents( $filePath, $fileContents );


 

       // TODO : Check for a better error handling


       return true;


   }


..


   public function removeFile( $directory, $fileName )


   {


       $filePath = $directory.'/'.$fileName;


       eZDebug::writeNotice( 'Removing ' . $filePath, __METHOD__ );


       $clusterFileHandler = eZClusterFileHandler::instance( $filePath );


       $clusterFileHandler->delete();


   }

This works nice for me. Just check carefully that SI blocks will also be cached by your Varnish as this may strongly increase charge on your database..

Enjoy