Cake PHP Benchmarking Test

This is the Cake PHP portion of a benchmarking test suite comparing a variety of web development platforms.

JSON Encoding Test

Uses the PHP standard JSON encoder.

• JSON test controller

Data-Store/Database Mapping Test

Uses the CakePHP Model functionality.

• DB test controller
• DB test model

Infrastructure Software Versions

The tests were run with:

• Cake Version 2.3.0
• PHP Version 5.4.13 with FPM and APC
• nginx 1.4.0
• MySQL 5.5.29

Cake Debug mode is set to 0 in core.php, as appropriate for a production deployment.

To support the Cake JsonView, we also made a routes configuration change.

Test URLs

JSON Encoding Test

http://localhost/index.php/json.json

Data-Store/Database Mapping Test

http://localhost/index.php/world.json

Variable Query Test

http://localhost/index.php/world.json?queries=2