Not really sure what the end-user/consumer of this XML looks like, but I'd recommend also compressing it and providing the consumer of the "feed" (more like a batch) with a .zip file they can download and consume -- 20k records is much too bulky for any kind of near-time consumption in my opinion, because the requestor's parser will most likely be waiting for the request to complete (i.e. download the entire XML file) before parsing it anyways -- might as well save some bandwidth and transfer it reliably.
Also, if you go this route, make sure you set the headers to Content-disposition:attachment to force the browser to prompt save/open, instead of trying to open in the browser. You can, however, provide a updated feed of "daily product updates" for those who have already downloaded (what sounds like) your entire product catalog. On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 2:48 AM, Bert Van den Brande<[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I've ran into the same problem as you did and ended up writing a Cake > Shell script that periodically get's executed by a cronjob. > The script script writes the .xml file to a location on the webserver, > making it accessible through a Cake web page. > > Don't have the code at hand here, but if you're interested I can dig it up. > > Friendly greetings, > Bert Van den Brande > > On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 5:38 PM, JamesF<[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hello all, >> >> I have been using cake's xmlhelper to render my xml output quite >> successfully. but i need to create a rather large file (20000 >> records), for a product feed export. if i limit my results to 100 at a >> time they render fine but obviously a brickwall is hit at higher >> numbers php generates out of memory erros and the like. >> >> my idea was to render xmlHelpers output (the view) to a file instead >> of live. then maybe the execution could be staggered and not timeout. >> i dont want to run up against php's script execution time limit. >> >> maybe its time to bust out requestAction with a for loop that runs >> through 100 records per iteration. i can set all that up, but am still >> unsure about how to output the view into a file. >> >> anyone else run into a solution for this? >> > >> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CakePHP" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
