I have created a facebook application in cakephp. This application is very very slow as compared to other apps. What shall I do to increase it's speed.? Please suggest something as this issue is driving me nuts.. :-(
thanks
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Did you set debug to '0' in core.php? If not, that will give you a huge speed boost.
mgroves
2009-07-29 20:49:18
thanks for your help, as suggested by you I did it but there's no speed gain at all :-(
Gaurav Sharma
2009-07-30 05:58:17
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we use (soon used) cakephp as well for fb apps
cakephp seems just to be slow.
anyway maybe this helps:
my facebook specific tips and learnings:
- reduce all api calls to the needed minimum
- use fbml whereever you can
- batch all api calls that are batchable
- batch all fql api calls
- cache the output of each api call you will need at the next page
- cache it at memcache or do a ramdisk for cache::file
generic must-do's
- use memcache
- do not hit database if not 100% needed
- do not hit the filesystem
- do everything you can do async (crondispatcher)
- use javascript effects to simulate quick response
Andreas Klinger
2009-07-30 08:30:04
what is meant by "javascript effects to simulate quick response."?Can you please throw some light on this technique.
Gaurav Sharma
2009-07-30 10:35:37
basically yes ajax - if you submit a form which adds content to a form dont wait for the response of the server - display it as added contentif you delete content from somewhere send the response to the server and instantly fadeout the element etc
Andreas Klinger
2009-07-30 15:34:04
so it means you are able to use ajax in facebook apps..? I have posted another problem here http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1186855/jquerys-ajax-not-working-in-facebook-apps where ajax was not working in the same application.
Gaurav Sharma
2009-07-31 05:59:27
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It generally is not the server side code that's slow. I doubt CakePHP is slowing you down. It's the DB access, the Facebook API calls and the HTML rendering (Use YSlow!) that account for 80-90% of the time spent loading an application.
Pierre-Antoine LaFayette
2009-08-15 04:23:19
thanks for your answer, but I think cakephp is slow because when I set the debug mode "on" I was shocked to see the number of queries it runs just to show records from a single table..
Gaurav Sharma
2009-08-15 07:47:48
Then it is a DB access problem no? Have you tried profiling the server side code? Making multiple queries doesn't necessarily slow things down. Especially if your database doesn't have a lot of data.
Pierre-Antoine LaFayette
2009-08-15 20:34:04