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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

Using Panels caching


The Panels 3.x module allows you to distribute your site's content and Views into custom layouts. You can use Panels to set up and configure these layouts and then integrate content into the layout that you choose. The Panels module uses what the module developers call a pluggable caching mechanism. This mechanism allows you to set up caching for all of your panels as a whole or for specific individual content panes within one panel. This allows for a large amount of caching flexibility. This section assumes that you have some experience using the Panels module to configure a panel layout and add content to it. I'm going to walk you through those configuration steps quickly and then we'll look at Panels caching more closely.

Creating a panel and adding content to it

To get started with Panels caching, make sure you have a Panel to use on your site. I'm going to go ahead and set up a Panel quickly and add some content to it, which we'll use to test the Panels caching...