Seems to be no (easy) way at the to know how old a value fetched is and to check whether it is out of date.
I've made these wrappers so that you can fetch and store values based on a udt returned from get_last_modified_date() which should return a udt of when your data was last changed, and hence needs junking out of the cache.
function apc_fetch_udt($key){
$g = apc_fetch($key);
if ($g){
list($udt,$val) = $g;
if (get_last_modified_date()<$udt) {
$val = unserialize($val);
return $val;
} else {
apc_delete($key);
}
}
}
function apc_store_udt($key,$g){
$udt = time();
$g = serialize($g);
$apc = array($udt,$g);
apc_store($key, $apc);
}