Re: Minimizing Database Hits

Only if your code is calling the database...if $cart_contents is set on the page and you call the var $car_contents over and over then no...the initialization of the var is the only time if it is called in get_cart_contents()... -- BigDog On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 16:41, Ralph wrote: > I wrote class that contains a function that retrieves users shopping > cart items from database and then returns an array with qty, item number > , item name, etc. > > So now whenever I want to retrieve the users cart I use the following: > > $cart_contents = $cart->get_cart_contents(); > > I then iterate through $cart_contents to display info. Now I am trying > to minimize the number of hits to the database so my question is, am I > querying the database every time I call on $cart_contents? > >