Hi all, I¹m brand new to CF7 and persistent CFCs and the like, and I¹m seeking advice. Here¹s the lowdown:
I have a content management application that has about the thousand templates, all badly written spaghetti code, etc., which I¹m in the process of cleaning up. I¹ve put together a framework that seems to work well performance is way up but that is an interim state. I¹m now converting the various modules, pushing the queries into a single application scoped CFC, etc. It¹s going well. My particular problem relates to a page which allows the customer to configure a page with one of several plugins (for example, an RSS reader or an open text area or a calendar, etc.), each of which could have its own configuration. The current setup is a godawful mess, so I sat down to actually a write a functional spec and a technical spec, describing each method, etc. which would be used to generate the page. The question is this. If I call for example, this page: http://www.blahblah.com/moduleID/77 the page processes, pulls the configuration for each plugin used on that page, then displays them in the user specified order. I originally was thinking that each time its called, it processes the logic (which exists in a application scoped page processing CFC). The I had the bright idea what if I created it as an object instead: <cfoutput>#application.pg.method(parameters)</cfoutput> -- processes every time Vs. <cfif Not IsDefined(³application.foo²><cfset application.foo=#application.pg.method(parameters)</cfoutput></cfif> <cfoutput>#foo#</cfoutput> -- > creates the object once with parameters and reuses it I don¹t even even know if this makes sense. I¹m thinking in terms of reducing the load of processing the page every time, because it¹s already built, but the problem is there could potentially be thousands of these objects floating around one for each page for each customer website. So the more I think about it, the more confused I get. Thoughts? More relevant info: I have memory and processor to spare on my server, but once or twice I¹ve hit the limit of what my instance of coldfusion can support. Right now it¹s configured with a min heap of 512 Mb and a max just shy of 1 Gb. I don¹t think it can go any higher, and I¹m not sure I¹m competent to consider going to multiple instances of CF yet. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:257130 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
