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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 the Memcache API and Integration module


The Memcache API and integration module provides an API for integration with the Memcached daemon or service. There are many methods of installing the prerequisites for using this module, specifically the Memcached library; but we're going to focus on how to easily install Memcached and the Drupal 6.x version of the module in a Windows WAMP environment using PHP 5.2.x. In order to use the Drupal module, we'll need to first install the Memcached service on our local development server and then integrate this service with our PHP version. There are many instructions available on the web for installing Memcached on a Linux or Mac OS system. You can do a Google search for tutorials on how to get Memcached installed or see the note below with links to resources on http://drupal.org/ and on Lullabot's website. Our focus here is to get Memcached up and running as quickly as possible so that you can see examples of how it works in a sandbox environment...