Professional CodeIgniter, Thomas Myer
Chapter 9: Security and Performance
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To start off, open up your footer view (/system/application/views/footer.php), and add the following
code to the file:
Copyright
<
?php echo date("Y"); ?
>
<
?php echo anchor("welcome/privacy","privacy policy");?
>
&
nbsp;
&
nbsp;
&
nbsp;
<
?php echo anchor("welcome/verify","dashboard");?
>
&
nbsp;
&
nbsp;
&
nbsp;
<
?php echo $this-
>
benchmark-
>
elapsed_time();?
>
&
nbsp;
&
nbsp;
&
nbsp;
<
?php echo $this-
>
benchmark-
>
memory_usage();?
>
The
elapsed_time()
function will tell you how much time it took to render a page, from CodeIgniter
framework initialization all the way through final output to the browser. The
memory_usage()
function
will tell you how much memory was used.
Once you ' ve loaded the view onto your site, visit one of the category pages. Remember, the home page is
cached, so it ' s better to visit an uncached page. You should see something like Figure 9 - 3 .
cached, so it ' s better to visit an uncached page. You should see something like Figure 9 - 3 .
Figure 9 - 3
According to the benchmarking functions, it took 0.07 seconds (give or take) to render the page, and it
used 0 memory. (It could also be showing zero because your copy of PHP didn ' t have - - enable - memory -
limit when it was compiled on the server. If that ' s the case, and you want to show this kind of data, you
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