Andy Gale mentions that requestAction was not an option for use in a large scale site (in video on the tv site)
http://mark-story.com/posts/view/reducing-requestaction-use-in-your-cakephp-sites-with-fat-models this article by teknoid is about menu specifically - I just found it & bookmarked it http://nuts-and-bolts-of-cakephp.com/2008/08/20/dynamic-menus-without-requestaction-in-cakephp-12/ - S On 25 February 2011 00:21, Krissy Masters <[email protected]>wrote: > Maybe I read it wrong back in the day but something idles in my head about > requestAction being bad. Is this true or still in effect? I am using 1.3.7 > and I think I remember reading back in 1.2 its better to not use that > function. > > “If used without caching requestAction can lead to poor performance. It is > rarely appropriate to use in a controller or model.” > > I have 1 element on 3 pages where I simply need to grab 4 fields from a db > for the element. The element is loaded originally on the first page left > side navigation column, and links load content into the main column so the > element is never refreshed since its on the side nav column except if > someone “open in new tab / window” on the link so the element has no data > because its originally loaded on the main page. So rather than build that > data call into each of those 3 pages I figured request would be the best > option. > > My Picasso below :) > > > Side Col | Main Col > ___________________________________________________________________ > | nav => loads into main | content gets loaded here via ajax > |------------------------------------------------------------------| > | > | element | > | > ____________________________________________________________________ > > > > Just looking for some input on the matter. > > Thanks, > > K > > -- > 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 > [email protected] For more options, visit this group > at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php > -- 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 [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php
