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November 10, 2007 5:23am
Subscribe [5]#1 / Nov 10, 2007 5:23am
I haven’t looked through EE’s source code yet but I wondering if someone could answer a quick question on the weblog entries tag. Just say weblog entries contains 10 fields and you want to display only 2 of them. When using a weblog entries tag does it select all available fields or only the fields specified within the loop? This is more of a performance question then anything. I would find it a waste of resources to select all 10 fields if I only wanted to display 2 of them.
#2 / Nov 10, 2007 10:43am
You can use parameters to disable custom fields - in addition to member data, trackbacks, pagination, and categories. But you can’t disable on a field by field basis.
My $0.02 - don’t worry about performance issues before they are issues…I have weblogs with dozens of custom fields and performance is fine.
#3 / Nov 10, 2007 5:25pm
When using a weblog entries tag does it select all available fields or only the fields specified within the loop?
I am pretty certain that it only loops through the variables that are specified inside of the tags, so fields that aren’t being called are a nonissue.
#4 / Nov 10, 2007 10:17pm
Based on the queries that I’ve seen run on an average EE template page, I doubt you’re going to see any type of performance hit unless you have a large number of custom fields. You can set the system to display all of the queries it executes in the control panel.