Is repeatedly loading a helper in a loop bad for performance?
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Hello all
This might be a silly question but I thought I'd see what the community thinks. I'm writing some functions to pull out users' avatars for use in my site's footer, like so:
My question is whether it's inefficient to load $ah with each call of the getUserBadge() function. My instinct is that it is, but can anyone confirm this? Is there a way to define a helper "class-wide" so it's instantiated once but used many times?
This is probably quite basic PHP/Zend but there you go. Many thanks for any help :)
This might be a silly question but I thought I'd see what the community thinks. I'm writing some functions to pull out users' avatars for use in my site's footer, like so:
Class Controller extends Concrete5_Library_controller { public function getFooterMembers() { $userList = new UserList(); $userList->filterByGroup("Members"); $userList->filterByIsActive(1); $userList->filter('u.uHasAvatar', 1); $userList->sortBy('uDateAdded', 'asc'); $users = $userList->get(5); $memArray = array(); foreach ($users as $u) { $memArray[] = $this->getUserBadge($u); } shuffle($memArray); return $memArray; }
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My question is whether it's inefficient to load $ah with each call of the getUserBadge() function. My instinct is that it is, but can anyone confirm this? Is there a way to define a helper "class-wide" so it's instantiated once but used many times?
This is probably quite basic PHP/Zend but there you go. Many thanks for any help :)
