CakePHP 1.1.11.4064 thawed and redelivered better than before.

By Larry E. Masters (PhpNut)
Well, its not often that you can take something out of the freezer and have it taste better than before, but that's what happened. We received a few more bugs and as Gwoo said in a message last week, speed was an issue. So, with the bugs that came in, we spent some time making things work a bit faster. While speed differences may vary based on your system, we noticed a nice increase[1].
The main increase comes from the lazy loading of models. Previous versions of CakePHP loaded all the models in the models directory. This functionality made access to models easier, but came at the expense of valuable processing time. The change results in a need to make sure you loadModel('ModelName'); if you use $ModelName = new ModelName() somewhere in your code. We have seen several examples, particularly in reference to components creating model instances. This was not recommended practice, so remember that you need to load the model now if you plan on creating an instance.

At the same time we tried to clean up the doc blocs and found a few things to deprecate moving forward. The main change is to _viewVars, now we made it public as viewVars. For 1.1.11.4064 _viewVars is still there, but 1.2.x.x will no longer have them, so you may need to keep this in mind when upgrading once 1.2 is out of the oven.

The other nice addition in 1.1.11.4064 is updated functionality of the Configure class. All core configuration is now handle by this class, so inside your methods you can access Configure::read('debug'); for the current setting. Also, Configure::write('debug', '0'); to change the debug level for a specific method. Also, we added Configure::version(); to get the latest version number.

Enjoy.

For more info on check out the changelog[2].
Release notes[3]
To download head over to CakeForge [4]

[1] http://cakephp.org/profile.png
[2] https://trac.cakephp.org/wiki/changelog/1.1.x.x
[3] https://trac.cakephp.org/wiki/notes/1.1.x.x
[4] http://cakeforge.org/frs/?group_id=23&release_id=164

 

Comments 174

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Question

1 Article

Is there an article, tutorial, or documentation on this new lazy-loading system?

Cheers.
Posted Dec 4, 2006 by James
 

Comment

2 Automated

Is there an article, tutorial, or documentation on this new lazy-loading system?

Cheers.

The new lazy-loading of models is automated in the core. But it will conflict with your code if you create a new instance of a model without loading it...

Ie..

loadModel("User"); // without this line you can't instantiate a User class because its not loaded
$User =& New User();
Posted Dec 8, 2006 by Brandon Parise
 

Question

3 loadModel and associations

We need to use the "$User =& New User();" if we wanted to have access to that model in a component. Doing so would also keep all the associations for that model (the hasMany, belongsTo, etc). Am I correct in assuming that if we also need to use "loadModel('User');" beforehand, it also would load the associated Models... or would we have to add "loadModel" lines for all the associated models as well?
Posted Dec 31, 1969 by Wil Alambre