Today i have a new very weird question. I am trying to find a way to cache language pot files.
The standard way that CakePHP does this is it parses the file into an array and then returns the key value pair. I am looking at increasing the performance for this due to the file growing exponentially
I have four solutions for this but i don't know which of them will be easily maintainable and supply the fastest performance.
Option 1: Use CakePHP's standard method for translations but just split the files up a little bit and use the __d() function
Option 2: Use a class i wrote to parse the contents of all the langauge files and cache them using apc. Then retrieve the translation via apc_fetch
Option 3: Serialize the translation array using either serialize or json_encode (which ever works the fastest) and defining it using apc_define_contants
Option 4: Use apc_define_contants to define every key in the translation file as a contant with its value
I am stuck on this and i don't know what will be best