[ic] flypage / IC efficiency?

[Jon Jensen]

On Sat, 17 Sep 2016, IC wrote:

> Then in Track.pm (sub view_product) it gets the description and category 
> (why?), when it does this though it checks again the sku exists each 
> time, so that's another 4 queries.

You can disable that with `UserTrack no` in your catalog.cfg. Almost 
nobody uses the UserTrack feature and it defaults to off in core and in 
the Strap catalog template.

> Then each time an [item] tag is used or an [if-item] not only does it 
> generate a query for the tag it checks if the sku exists every time, so 
> if you have 20 [item] tags you get a further pointless 20 'select sku' 
> queries, this is why the strap and standard flypage generate over 30 
> queries for a single product view.
>
> The IC core is highly inefficient, it generates 2 mysql queries for 
> every item tag.
>
> I don't know what the best fix for this is?

As I mentioned in a previous email in this thread, don't use the 
[item-field] tag. It does a new SQL query for every invocation by design; 
that's just not the tag you should use. I wrote before:

> You can rework the flypage to use a [query] tag to fetch whatever you 
> want in a single query and then use [sql-param] to access the values 
> without any further hits to the database.

HTH,
Jon


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Jon Jensen
End Point Corporation
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