Question

I am using code igniter(PHP) n MYSQL .I am extracting huge amount of data (around 60 thousand records from XML) into my mysql database.Then i am trying to load this data onto my web pages.I am successfully inserting data into my database using insert batch method of code igniter .But when I try to retrieve these records,it takes ages to load and display on the web page.

The approach I am using to insert data:

  $data = array(array('title' => 'My title' ,
  'name' => 'My Name' ,
  'date' => 'My date' ),
   array('title' =>'Another title','name'=> 'Another Name','date' =>'Another date'));

   $this->db->insert_batch('mytable', $data); 

I am simply using select statement to retrieve records from single table.

My question :

How can I retrieve huge amount of records efficiently without having delays in page loading and display??

Answer 1

You should look into pagination unless there is a very good reason to display 60,000 records to the user in one go.

CodeIgniter provides a pagination class, see documentation for details on how to use it along with example code:

http://ellislab.com/codeigniter/user-guide/libraries/pagination.html

If you need more guidance on how to use this than provided by the documentation above, the following tutorial may help:

http://phpmaster.com/pagination-with-codeigniter/