I've raised a similar question before but got no responses, so I'll try something more specific.
I have an application that is pretty dynamic. With no caching turned on there is a lag of around 2 seconds before anything happens, and then it all zips in really quickly. If I blanket enable view caching (enabling cache in core.php, adding the Cache helper to app_controller and setting cacheAction to +1hour) the lag disappears, response is fantastic but the results are (understandably) terrible as nothing is dynamic. If I move the cache setting from app_controller into specific actions I start to get better results. It's a pretty big app, so that's going to take a lot of time and testing to do correctly. However, I have a particular problem that I need to solve before I put in the effort. I have a navigation component that reads $this->params, sets up some variables that are passed through the controller and rendered in an element (that also has a nested element): function beforeRender() { $this->set('menus', $this->Navigation->menus($this->params)); I have placed <cake:nocache></cake:nocache> blocks in the elements. Reading the Cake on line book: "It should be noted that once an action is cached, the controller method for the action will not be called - otherwise what would be the point of caching the page. Therefore, it is not possible to wrap <cake:nocache> </cake:nocache> around variables which are set from the controller as they will be null." As every page contains the navigation code, it would seem that I cannot pass the menus variable down. Subsequent rendering of the navigation (when the contents have changed) delivers lots of 'Undefined index' errors as the variables are indeed missing. This is especially so when a user logs in and then logs, which generates different menu content. Can anyone suggest a work around for this? -- Our newest site for the community: CakePHP Video Tutorials http://tv.cakephp.org Check out the new CakePHP Questions site http://ask.cakephp.org and help others with their CakePHP related questions. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to cake-php+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php