Re: Problems w/ heavy use of cart header fields?

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1998


It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 16899
interpreted = N
texte = On 4/6/1998 1:27 PM, PCS Technical Support so noted...>>I'm wondering if frequently setting, resetting and >>accessing these cart header fields will cause a big performance hit > >Everything is RAM-based as long as you're inside an OrderFile context, >because SetHeader will look 'outwards' until it bumps into a context that >contains the same OrderFile as the on in the SetHeader. > >Any template that you get to from ShowCart, Purchase, Add, Remove (all the >commands that deal with carts) is automatically 'wrapped' inside an >OrderFile, so a bunch of SetHeader tags on that page should be pretty fast. > >Naturally if you're not inside an existing OrderFile context, then >SetHeader won't find any OrderFiles in RAM, and it will have to actually >hit the disk in order to make changes to the order file.Since I'm using these header fields so extensively, all but a handful of pages are enclosed inside an orderfile context. Does what you say mean that, if a setheader occurs within an orderfile, that after the [/orderfile] those changes *then* get written to disk? If so, does an [/orderfile] always write to disk, or only if changes are made to the order within the context (ie: by using one or more setheaders)? Also, can my shopping carts be moved outside of the web directory tree, if I wanted to move all these carts to a RAM disk (and would that be beneficial, or a waste of time and an unnecessary risk)?Rob Marquardt Designer/Resident Wirehead Toast Design300 First Avenue North, Suite 150 Minneapolis MN 55401 612.330.9863 v 612.321.9424 f www.toastdesign.com Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
  1. Re: Problems w/ heavy use of cart header fields? (PCS Technical Support 1998)
  2. Re: Problems w/ heavy use of cart header fields? (Rob Marquardt 1998)
  3. Re: Problems w/ heavy use of cart header fields? (PCS Technical Support 1998)
  4. Problems w/ heavy use of cart header fields? (Rob Marquardt 1998)
On 4/6/1998 1:27 PM, PCS Technical Support so noted...>>I'm wondering if frequently setting, resetting and >>accessing these cart header fields will cause a big performance hit > >Everything is RAM-based as long as you're inside an OrderFile context, >because SetHeader will look 'outwards' until it bumps into a context that >contains the same OrderFile as the on in the SetHeader. > >Any template that you get to from ShowCart, Purchase, Add, Remove (all the >commands that deal with carts) is automatically 'wrapped' inside an >OrderFile, so a bunch of SetHeader tags on that page should be pretty fast. > >Naturally if you're not inside an existing OrderFile context, then >SetHeader won't find any OrderFiles in RAM, and it will have to actually >hit the disk in order to make changes to the order file.Since I'm using these header fields so extensively, all but a handful of pages are enclosed inside an orderfile context. Does what you say mean that, if a setheader occurs within an orderfile, that after the [/orderfile] those changes *then* get written to disk? If so, does an [/orderfile] always write to disk, or only if changes are made to the order within the context (ie: by using one or more setheaders)? Also, can my shopping carts be moved outside of the web directory tree, if I wanted to move all these carts to a RAM disk (and would that be beneficial, or a waste of time and an unnecessary risk)?Rob Marquardt Designer/Resident Wirehead Toast Design300 First Avenue North, Suite 150 Minneapolis MN 55401 612.330.9863 v 612.321.9424 f www.toastdesign.com Rob Marquardt

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