Offload read queries to a replica DB for better performance

In most web application, which require a lot of find()’s especially if more than a couple of models are involved, you should probably consider offloading those operations to read-only replica of your DB. This is typically…

Make your CakePHP app ridiculously faster with “view caching”

Big or small, once your app goes to production you’d better start thinking about utilizing view caching ;)

Granted, view caching in a dynamic application can be tricky or impossible(?)… 
but with…

Installing membase/memcached

These are instructions for getting membase/memcached installed in your local environment.
(I was installing on windows so your setup might be a little different, but general approach is mostly the same).

Speed up your pagination with a simple hack…

Before I go into the example in this little post, let me just say that this situation won’t be applicable to everyone…

But let’s consider the following:
We have a table with tens of thousands of records, that need to be…

If you use UUID’s…

Be extra careful to make sure that, according to convention, your ‘id’ column (or primary key) is:

char(36) and never varchar(36)

CakePHP will work with both definitions, however you will be sacrificing about 50% of the performance of your DB…

Two ways to debug your AJAX queries

Every once in a while you might have a need to trigger an AJAX action in the controller, which should return some results from the server…

When everything works, well it is certainly all fine and dandy, but if things go haywire, first thing…

Dealing with static pages v2 (or… 3?)

Over the years of cake development we’ve seen a number of ways to get rid of the the /pages/ path in the URL for static pages.

By default if you create an “about us” page, such as in app/views/pages/about.ctp, the resulting URL would be…