Thanks John, I'll give that a read. :) Thanks again for the help with this.
On 22 March 2010 11:48, John Blackbourn <[email protected]<johnbillion%[email protected]> > wrote: > On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 11:21 AM, Paul Robinson <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > Another quick question though, how come the overhead on get_option is so > > small, doesn't it access the db each time it's called? > > The result of get_option('my_option') is stored in an object cache. > This is basically just a fancy wrapper around storing the result in a > global variable array. Any subsequent calls to get_option('my_option') > during the same page load fetch the value from the cache instead of > the database. > > See http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/WP_Cache if you're > interested in the details. > _______________________________________________ > wp-testers mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-testers > _______________________________________________ wp-testers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-testers
