Check this http://itfeast.blogspot.in/2013/10/cakephp-query-and-cache-optimization.html?m=1 On 10-Nov-2013 8:21 PM, "Ighor Martins" <ighor.mart...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi there!. > > I'm a web developer from Portugal for like 8 years. I have been using > CakePHP for about 1 year and a half right now, and I'm pretty used to it, > with a good knowledge of the Framework. > > On the last month, the company I work for, decided to create a new company > and engage on a new project. > The idea is to create a platform based on the needs of the company. It's > something like these sites: http://www.lynda.com/, > https://www.coursera.org/ and etc, but a little bit more complex, since > our final users isn't singular people, and some others functional > requirements that has to be done. > > So, Long story short, since last month we are developing a really small > "sneak peek" of the platform working (because we need something functional > ASAP), and then on the next month we're going to re-factor it all to > develop the final product. As you can imagine I'm using CakePHP on this > initial preview, and I'm wondering if I couldn't use CakePHP for the final > product too. > > We all know that a lot of people complain about CakePHP performance. But > we know too that 80% of these complains is due to bad use of the Framework. > Ok, Cake has a way of working that in some cases may have a really big > performance impact, for example it trying to format all the data into > relational arrays, which could be a problem in querys that return a really > big bunch of data, but ... > Sincerely performance isn't my biggest concern. > My biggest problem is: > This will be an application, with a custom software design. And CakePHP > almost force us to follow it's strict design. At the same time, this > platform won't require that enough for me to move to something like Zend. > > So, I have knowledge about Cake, but I don't really know the best > practices to develop big applications with Cake. Only normal websites. > Sometimes I even feel like cake almost force us grow our controllers code > instead of models, and that's what's making me sad. > To give you an example: > I normally do things like this on controllers: > $this->MyModel->find('all', array( > 'contain' => array( > 'SecondLevelThing' => array( > 'ThirdLevelThing' => array( > 'conditions' => 'thirdLevelThingConditions' > ), > 'conditions' => 'secondLevelThingConditions' > ) > ) > )); > > Then I need this same information on other places of application. So I > just repeat the code, but as you can see, this is already a custom code, I > can't be re-writing this everywhere. > So I should do something like: > $this->MyModel->id = x > $this->MyModel->getCustomInfo(); > > and this object method would return that information. But the problem is, > when I do that, I see myself fighting against Cake default way of working > in a lot of things, for example if I want to paginate that information, and > other things. > > > I know CakePHP 3 will be there in a while to solve some of these issues, > and it will finally return objects instead of arrays :) > but for now, how is the best design pattern to follow with CakePHP when > developing big applications without fighting against the framewok? > > > Thank you guys. > > -- > Like Us on FaceBook https://www.facebook.com/CakePHP > Find us on Twitter http://twitter.com/CakePHP > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "CakePHP" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to cake-php+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to cake-php@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- Like Us on FaceBook https://www.facebook.com/CakePHP Find us on Twitter http://twitter.com/CakePHP --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CakePHP" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to cake-php+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to cake-php@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
