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eZ Publish 4: Enterprise Web Sites Step-by-Step

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eZ Publish 4: Enterprise Web Sites Step-by-Step

Overview of this book

eZ Publish provides developers with a structure to build highly impressive applications and then quickly deploy them into a live environment. eZ Publish is complex, with a steep learning curve, but with the right direction it offers great flexibility and power. What makes eZ Publish special is not the long list of features, but what's going on behind the scenes. Created specifically for newcomers to eZ Publish, and using an example Magazine web site, this book focuses on designing, building and deploying eZ Publish to create an enterprise site quickly and easily. This tutorial takes eZ Publish's steep learning curve head-on, and walks you through the process of designing and building content-rich web sites. It makes the unrivalled power and flexibility of eZ Publish accessible to all developers. The book is organized around technical topics, which are handled in depth, with a general progression that follows the learning experience of the reader, and features a single magazine web site project from installation to completion and deployment. This hands-on guide helps the reader to understand the Content Management System to create a web 2.0-ready web site by creating new extensions or overriding the existing ones. In turn, it helps you to become confident when working in the eZ Publish administration area and offers an environment in which you can practice while working through the chapters.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
eZ Publish 4: Enterprise Web Sites Step-by-Step
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
Preface
Advance Debugging

Chapter 11. Cache Configuration

Power is nothing without control

—Pirelli ads.

As we've seen so far, eZ Publish is a much advanced and powerful CMS and it needs to be well configured to work at its best. Like many other enterprise software applications, this CMF possesses an advanced caching system that is complex to set up and configure, but very powerful in the end. Configuring the caching system will help eZ Publish to perform better and reveal its strength.

In this chapter, we will see in detail, how such systems work, and will look at how to shape our site in order to make it the "Ferrari" of websites.

Caching system

Whenever we make a web request to a CMS that does not have a serious caching system, the web server is put under a severe test, as it has to perform the following things:

  • Read the settings

  • Query the database to retrieve the data requested

  • Load the template

  • Replace parsed variables with the required data

  • Send everything to the client

The process, depending on the page complexity,...