
Articles Title Created Html -> link ( $article -> title, ) ?> created -> format ( DATE_RFC850 ) ?> So we’ll have to createĪ folder named ‘Articles’ in this case. Named after the controller they correspond to. YourĪpplication can have multiple layouts, and you can switch between them, but forĬakePHP’s template files are stored in templates inside a folder Layout filesĬontain common site elements like headers, footers and navigation elements.
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View context, let’s create a view template for our index action.ĬakePHP view templates are presentation-flavored PHP code that is inserted inside Now that we have our controller pulling data from the model, and preparing our CakePHP will automatically render the template after ourĬontroller action completes. It then uses set() to pass the articles into the Template (which It fetches a paginated set of articlesįrom the database, using the Articles Model that is automatically loaded via namingĬonventions. Routing to connect the URLs you want to the actions you’ve Instead, follow the CakePHP ConventionsĬreating readable, meaningful action names. To name your controllers and actions in a way that allows you to obtain specific In our tests the improvement was noticed at 50% but strangely just after the third call to the cached page this does not work correctly when there is paging in between, because this is based on the name of the file and when it is pagination, the name of the page remains the same only with different parameters, unless we use friendly url in which case each Pagination could be a different name, although with a little patience maybe and we find a solution to that.LoadComponent ( 'Paginator' ) $articles = $this -> Paginator -> paginate ( $this -> Articles -> find ()) $this -> set ( compact ( 'articles' )) } }īy defining function index() in our ArticlesController, users can nowĪccess the logic there by requesting Similarly, if we were to define a function called foobar(), users would beĪble to access that at You may be tempted This file top_cache.php should be included in the first line of my page to “cache” and bottom_cache.php at the end. number_format($end-$start,4).” seconds.” Now we will have documented the initial execution time, we should save that information as a basis for the analysis. Then we use all the code present on the page, be these: PHP, HTML, CSS and / or Javascript, depending on the project.Īnd at the end of everything we will place the following.

If it’s a page with static content, it does not make sense to use this caching technique. To have an initial metric we will use the following code. Well, it is what we have to do, firstly “measure” the execution time of a script without a cache, it can be a whole page or part of the script (it is understood that when we say pages we refer to the individual document, because many people could refer to it erroneously as a page to a site). To optimize we must have an initial metric results, understand that by consuming HTML directly we would be achieving: fewer queries to Database, less processes, finally this will be reflected in less overall wear from our web server. When generating HTML files we will be protecting the unnecessary waste of server resources, and obviously we optimize the overall performance: resources vs. If we need that the content is one hundred percent in real time and that constantly varies, the cache in this case, is not a recommended or useful option, the intention is to “cache” pages with contents that can in some way or another take N seconds in cooling and that in different requests remains unchanged for some time. On the other hand, a dynamic content page is one that from PHP scripts can eventually contain: long and complex processes, interaction and queries based on data, among other things, which finally are what condition and present their content, including they may vary between one request and another so the goal is to optimize a dynamic content page but once created such content does not need constant generation of it. The goal is to create pure and static HTML files, understand that we refer to pure and static those pages whose content remain unchanged and formatted with HTML tags. In this example we will check the actual optimization using a small script in PHP to generate a cache file using code, although there are many ways and techniques, today we will analyze one of them.
