Re: [Phpwebsite-developers] Templates Proposition

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+ 1 Woot, I likes a lot.

I think I will implement that in my modules to.

Steven

> 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
> Internet Systems Architect
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Steven Levin
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