As we all know, XOOPS has a powerful caching system. However, it seems although XOOPS can cache at block & module level, the system is not flexible enough to cache individual pages.

For example, with News 1.3, there are 4 blocks that user can select to cache as well as caching the whole News module. However, it will be a great feature to have if user can cache the "index.php" but not "article.php". By doing such configuration, the database query & execution time of the main page can be dramatically reduced but users still do not lose click count of each article.

Performance has been an issue with XOOPS, but I think with this little enhancement, users can have more flexibility to use the powerful caching system XOOPS has and increase performance. Is there already such thing exists?

We will look at the possibilities for adding API functionality for better caching control in XOOPS 2.1