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Drupal 6 Performance Tips

By : T J Holowaychuk, Trevor James
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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>

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Drupal 6 Performance Tips
T J Holowaychuk | Trevor James
Feb, 2010 | 240 pages
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Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Drupal 6 Performance Tips
Drupal 6 Performance Tips
Credits
Credits
About the Authors
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
Preface
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Upgrading Drupal
Upgrading Drupal
Upgrading Drupal 5.x core
Upgrading to 5.19
Backing up and exporting your Drupal 5.x Views
Final prep for upgrading to 6.13
Downloading Drupal 6.13
Upgrading Drupal core
Installing the updated Zen theme files
Summary
2
Maintaining your Drupal Site
Maintaining your Drupal Site
Checking your Drupal configuration status
Checking your PHP and MySQL settings
Files to delete and clean up
Enabling the Update Status module
Introduction to Drupal caching
Running cron manually
Backing up your site using SFTP/FTP and cPanel
Tweaking your HTACCESS file
Summary
3
Using Development Modules and Tools
Using Development Modules and Tools
Viewing and inspecting recent log entries
The Devel module
Summary
4
Performance Optimization
Performance Optimization
Enabling and configuring the Throttle module
Generating test users, categories, and content
Views caching
Using Panels caching
Summary
5
Using DB Maintenance and Boost
Using DB Maintenance and Boost
Using the DB Maintenance module
Using the Boost module
Summary
6
Advanced Boost
Advanced Boost
Updating contributed modules
Recommended modules that work with Boost
Advanced Boost settings
Summary
7
Using Memcache API and Integration
Using Memcache API and Integration
Using the Memcache API and Integration module
Summary
8
Advanced Caching and Contributed Modules for Caching
Advanced Caching and Contributed Modules for Caching
Cache Router
Authenticated User Page Caching (Authcache)
Advanced cache
APC (Alternative PHP cache)
File Cache module
Summary
9
Multisite Configuration and Performance
Multisite Configuration and Performance
Using Drupal multisite
Multisite resources
Summary

About the Authors

Trevor James is a Drupal developer and web designer based in Middletown, MD, USA. Trevor has been designing websites for 13 years using a combination of HTML, XHTML, CSS, and ColdFusion, and has been using Drupal intensively for more than 2 years. Trevor's focus is on building web portals for higher education, public education (K-12), non-profit and small business environments. He is interested in the best methods of developing Drupal themes, Drupal site performance, and using CCK, Views, and Panels to develop frontend interfaces to support data intensive websites. He loves teaching people about Drupal and how to use this excellent open source content management framework.

Trevor has designed and developed websites for many non-profit, education-based, and small business organizations. He is currently working on a number of Drupal-related projects.

Trevor created an 11.5 hour video tutorial series comprising 114 lessons titled Introduction to Drupal 6 for VTC (Virtual Training Company) in 2009. The video is available via the VTC website here: http://www.vtc.com/products/Introduction-To-Drupal-6-Tutorials.htm

A huge thank you to my wife, Veronica, and our two beautiful twin girls, Francesca and Clare, for their love and support while I was writing this book.

Thanks to my father-in-law, Tony Gornik, for offering his residence in Hershey, PA, as writing space on weekends. The quiet and slower pace of Hershey helped inspire the writing of these chapters. Many thanks to the Hershey Fire Company crew for giving me and my twin daughters tours of the big trucks during the much-needed writing breaks.

Many thanks to the entire Packt editorial and project team for inviting me to work on this project and for continuing to publish excellent titles on Drupal and open source applications. More thanks to Steven Wilding, Packt Acquisition Editor; Joel Goveya, Project Coordinator; Akash Johari, Technical Editor; Lata Basantani, Projects Team Leader; and Patricia Weir, for keeping the project on track and for guiding me in the construction of this title. I look forward to working with you all again in the near future.

TJ Holowaychuk, the president of http://vision-media.ca, is a self-taught web development guru whose skills range from high performance programming in C to agile and elegant solutions written in Ruby or PHP. He has contributed to and started over 50 open source projects including Drupal, JSpec, Evolution CMS, and jQuery. With such a large array of skills, TJ provides a unique perspective with all challenges regarding performance, design, or development.

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