Question

I’m using http://datatables.net/examples/ for easy control table. I’m generating table with more than 30,000 records from a MySQL table, and loading is very slow. I want to cache this table and think that everything will go faster. I used ob_get_contents() but cache file size was 26MB. How can I create cache file to make everything go faster?

Answer 1

If the output buffer size is 26MB then the problem is that it’s just taking a long time for your browser to download the page after the server generates it. You should either limit the number of rows that are returned, or use a pagination system.

For pagination, I’d do something like this:

Have a URL like: http://website.com/script.php?start=3000

and then do something like

$start = mysql_real_escape_string($_GET['start']);
$sql = "SELECT * FROM table LIMIT $start, 100";

You’d then want to print out a URL on the page that links to the next page:

$nextpage = $start + 100;
echo "<a href='/script.php?start=$nextpage'>Next Page</a>";