The Bakery Everything CakePHP

As I have developed my CakePHP application, I have discovered new and useful functions every day - and today I want to talk to you about caching, and how easily it can be implemented. When I implemented it on my front page, I went from having 7 database queries down to 1.

This is a brief tutorial on using requestAction to produce reusable elements. Code samples for 1.1 and 1.2 are provided.

Caching elements in general has been discussed before on bakery and this article takes caching of an element to a higher level. This article explains how to cache elements individually for each user.

I needed a simple, yet flexible way for backend users to add certain pre-defined HTML
elements like Youtube videos to posts. I came up with this little
helper that replaces bbcode-like element tags with the contents of an element.