1. Five simple tools to increase the optimization level of cakePHP websites
Summary:
The article identifies five useful techniques to optimize cakePHP website for the perfect return
on investments. The flexible license, MVC structure as well as caching and active community
has made this free, open source framework popular among students as well as developers. The
five techniques also show the compatibility of various features of cakePHP framework with the
techniques and discuss the benefits of them.
CakePHP framework provides a robust but independent organizational structure without the
APACHE configuration. The framework can work from any website directory. The web template
system shows a default web form with customization feature. The open source framework has
the independent modular approach and benefits from the popular MVC structure. The client-
server architecture is perfectly blended in the MVC approach where the model is for application
data representation, the view is for rendering the application data and controller module is for
serving and handling the client request. The three modules of the MVC model receive some help
from the components, helpers, behaviors and application extensions to speed up the routing or
the loading of the cakePHP websites. They are the extensions of the controller, view, models,
and applications respectively. A usual cakePHP request consists of request from client through
dispatcher and routes to the controller where the controller connects the model for the database
use and additional ‘behaviors’. The controller again receives ‘components’ and connect the view
via ‘helpers’. The view sends the response to the client back. The core or the built-in components
of the cakePHP consist of access control list for easy access to user interface and database,
cookies for session component as well as wrapper for the native PHP cookies, Authentication for
the default user authentication process like ‘object call back’, email, session, request handling
etc. The core or built in utility library includes reflector, string, XML, cache etc.
1. Upgrading:
The developer community has a tendency to identify the cakePHP framework as a slow
framework. However with some simple modifications, it can be one of the fastest and rapid used

2. frameworks in near future. Upgrading the versions of cakePHP framework can solve the slow
loading problem by nearly 70%. The average page load time of versions 1.2, 1.3 and 2.0 are
.112s, .082s, .081s respectively. Therefore upgrading the version from the previous version can
be useful in the case.
2. Debug mode:
For deploying the cakePHP application the status of the debug mode is important. The
deployment should be done after checking the visibility of the core components of cakePHP
framework. Data validation, as well as sanitization like proper use of $validator or input filtering,
is useful in this case. The deployment method should make only the ‘webroot’ directory publicly
visible. These points are crucial as improper deployment can decrease the page load time
significantly. The default debugs status is 2 and that means the setup of the core.php file is
distributed in may be environment, stages, and production. To optimize the cakePHP page the
debug mode needs to turn off or set the value as 0. Setting debug mode as 0 can help as
following:
 Stop displaying the error and notifications
 Views only show generic error messages
 Exception stacks are disabled
 Caching start for useful objects
Therefore ‘debug mode=0’ focuses only the proper elements neglecting various additional
features and plug-ins.
3. Caching query:
This is one of the important optimization techniques. Usually, the database queries are all
handled by the database servers. However, when the database server is caching the queries the
cakePHP framework still needs to be active for parsing and building the arrays of data. This
procedure only increases the workload and makes the framework and server busy for a long time.
The responding becomes time-consuming in this case. However, if the cakePHP framework

3. caches the queries then the consumption of time can be decreased. The points need to consider
are:
 Appmodel.php should be the root of app folder
 The default find() must be overridden
 Cacheconfig may be set with a different value of timeout period
4. Recursive Find ():
Recursive property fetches data from the different layers of the cakePHP framework using the
Find () or Read (). The status of find () calling returns different types of data. According to the
cakePHP cookbook the status values are following:
 Status= -1 returns group data without joins
 Status= 0 returns group data with domain
 Status= 1 returns domains and corresponding users
 Status= 2 returns group, domain, user and related articles
The default value is set to 0 for the cakePHP framework. Therefore, the framework has a
tendency to join relative models and increase the load on the server. The status value needs to be
-1 to receive the exact data user wants.
5. Memory based caching:
The cakePHP framework stores its session in a disk or more specifically in a temporary folder.
For accessing the session every time the framework have to open the session file for decoding.
The storing option in the disk file is costly. To remove this problem the cakePHP framework
provides option of memory based caching. To create a session related disk I/O there are two
ways. A physical memory location or RAM can be configured on server so that the session.
Save_path value updates it on the new location. Another way is to use some software like
MEMCACHE or REDIS to provide virtual memory space for the objects. This kind of open
source platforms can be installed in another system and serve as memory once the session path is
updated.

4. Conclusion:
The article defines the cakePHP framework and identifies five simple tips to optimize the
cakePHP websites to the highest level. The tips are easy to understand and usable for both
students and the developers. The simple modifications include upgrading, change in debugging
and caching, removing recursive find statements etc.
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