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Drupal 6 Performance Tips

By : T J Holowaychuk, Trevor James
Book Image

Drupal 6 Performance Tips

By: T J Holowaychuk, Trevor James

Overview of this book

<p>Drupal is one of the most respected and widely used open source content management frameworks.&nbsp; Small, medium, and large-scale websites are built using Drupal and the framework supports ecommerce, CRM, multisite and web service integrations.&nbsp; <br /><br />Once you get your Drupal site installed and up and running, you will be concerned with site performance and how fast you can make your Drupal site run.&nbsp; This book will focus on implementing performance modules and solutions to help speed up your Drupal website.<br /><br />We will look at introductory topics such as upgrading your Drupal site, maintaining your site, and enabling core Drupal page compression and caching. <br />&nbsp;<br />Then we will turn to an advanced look at some contributed modules that help speed up performance, including Development, Boost, Authcache, Advanced Cache, and the Memcache API and Integration module.<br /><br />Finally, we&rsquo;ll look at how best to implement a Drupal multisite environment and run it with high-speed performance in mind.<br /><br />This book is designed for Drupal developers and webmasters who want to increase their Drupal site&rsquo;s speed and performance.&nbsp; You will take your Drupal site to the next level by not only displaying relevant and newsworthy content, but also running a powerful and high-speed website.</p>
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Drupal 6 Performance Tips
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
Preface

Views caching


The Views 2 module allows you to cache your Views data and content. You can cache Views data per View. We're going to enable caching on one of our existing Views, and also create a brand new View and set caching for that as well using the test content we just generated. This will show you a nice integration of the Devel functionality with the Views module and then how caching works with Views.

Go to your Site building | Views configuration page and you'll see many of your default and custom views listed. We have a view on this site for our main photo gallery. The view is named photo_gallery in our View listing. Go ahead and click on one of your Views edit links to get into edit mode for a View.

In our Views 2 interface mode, we'll see our tabs for default, Page, and/or Block View display. I'm going to click on my Page tab to see my View's page settings. Under my Basic settings configuration, I'll see a link for Caching. Currently, our Caching link states None, meaning that...