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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

Chapter 7. Using Memcache API and Integration

In this chapter, we're going to return to our discussion of Drupal caching mechanisms and take a detailed look at the Memcache API and Integration contributed module along with the best methods of installing and configuring this module to allow for more granular and advanced cache configurations within our site. In Chapters 5 and 6, we used the Boost module to enable advanced caching for our anonymous site visitors. In this chapter and in Chapter 8, we're going to look at the best methods of enabling caching for our authenticated users, and investigate how to get even more control and flexibility over the Drupal caching system using contributed modules.

By the end of this chapter you will know how to:

  • Install a development WAMP environment using MoWeS Portable

  • Install Memcached binary libraries on your development server

  • Integrate and configure Memcached to work with your PHP 5.2.x application

  • Extract and install the Memcache API and Integration module...