[Phpwebsite-developers] Templates Proposition

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Greetings,

While working on calendar, I needed to create a year view. This particular
view is extremely process heavy as it has to create each month using
templates. I was hitting one template for each day, week, and month.
7 * 5 * 12 = 420 average file hits for the year view.

Phew.

Well what I decided to do was store this data in a session array keyed
into the year. So whenever that year is hit, it delivers the data without
having to hit all those files again.

Then I thought of another way to speed up time. The processTemplate
function allows you to send a string instead of a filename. So if I stored
that template file information, I could just send it instead.

After this, I thought why not combine the two? So I copied the
processTemplate function into layout.

This processTemplate looks in a session named Template. It is indexed by
the module name and filename. If the session component exists, it used it
INSTEAD of loading the file. If it does not exist, it goes on before
loading the file and processing it. It then copies the template file into
the session.

My file hits should go from around 420 to 3.

Now I could have just pulled those files separately but, with the session,
it carries over from function to function. The month creation script would
lose that template file each one of the eleven other times it was hit for
the year view.

IMHO I think this could be a substantional speed increase were it
implemented in the core. However, there might be issues I am unaware of.

So I would like discussion on whether this should be implemented into the
processTemplate function.

Please vote and post!

Thanks,
Matt


Matthew McNaney
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