When used properly it has it uses. But I did not think people would use it the way they do when I added it the core.
http://mark-story.com/posts/view/how-using-requestaction-increased-performance-on-my-site -- Larry E. Masters On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 8:31 PM, Sam Sherlock <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 > -- 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
