Hi there!

I'm putting up a couple of sites that hopefully will get a lot of visitors. In order to make the site more friendly on my cpu-usage i want to enable caching.

I know that you can have longer times between cache updates on pages/modules that get new content less frequently and really shouldn't have caching enabled on, for example, the forum.

Is there a good reason why the caching couldn't be dynamic? By that i mean let the caching be permanent, i.e. cache once, no updates. And then update the cache when new content is added.

That way its only updated when needed and it would perhaps work with the forums as well? Perhaps the forums threads could be cached separately and updated when there's a new post.

Can this be enabled easily? Hmm.. otherwise this thread perhaps should be placed in the Feature Requests forum. Mods, feel free to move it there if its more suitable.

But what do you think about my idea of dynamic caching? Is it doable? Easy? Hard? i don't know so im asking you..

-Anders

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@Eastgrove : I move it to "xoops core hack" forum

Agree on point of dynamic Cache it is something I am looking at and why the constant looking at Smarty lately....

Yet, yes as far as I know it is better to have something cached even for a little...reason being is Smarty then renders the html template....this is given an ID in your database for Smarty to find and display that template written...else each time anyone comes to the same page...it repeats the same questions of whom, where and what each time instead of just once....

Yet as soon as can figure a way out that doesn't require any hacking and XOOPS is pre-configured dynamical, the better for all of us...can't stand trying to figure what Cache is best for what....

The idea is generally good and something I have implemented in some modules already (article module for cw.dk and OBS_Classroom, the latter is available at http://xoops.web-udvikling.dk).

The main challenge when making a generic system-wide solution is that there is practically no way that the core can know which pages are influenced by a change.

I mean - say we write a reply to a forum thead. Then the thread needs updating, the forum page needs updating and perhaps the top-level forum listing page needs updating.
Not to mention that any blocks showing the latest threads, latest posts or most active threads will also need updating.

The only one, who can actually know this, is the module developer - and even then, the blocks updating will be quite difficult.

So I'd say that module content can be cached and updated with this method, but blocks are more of a challenge, and it will not be easy to implement with core "magic" but must be implemented in the individual modules.

Maybe it's just me yet doesn't Smarty says it can do this, in it's config file....that it will either check if updates are needed or not...

Smarty.Class.php
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what we need then, is just to make sure Smarty uses it, and have a dynamic setting for this...

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