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Template Questions /

Moderators: martimiz, Sean, Ed, biapar, Willr, Ingo, swaiba

Cache template areas OR Best method for complex menus


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Marcus

Administrator, 89 Posts

26 October 2009 at 12:48pm

Assume for a moment that I have a menu with ~1000 items in it (I know, from an IA point of view it's not ideal, but some clients do 'require' it). I haven't actually tested this yet, so I'm only thinking through based on what I've seen happen on other systems... but generally, this takes a lot of time to put together.

Is there a way to specify in a .ss template that the output of a certain region should be cached as rendered for a period of time?

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sdbruder

Community Member, 4 Posts

2 December 2009 at 10:43am

Ive just published an initial patch (against trunk) of caching suport for arbitrary methods of any Object-children, it's in silverstripe-dev (http://groups.google.com/group/silverstripe-dev/browse_thread/thread/d327a13ff58c45cb).

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Willr

Forum Moderator, 5523 Posts

2 December 2009 at 12:11pm

There is also a partial caching system that is due to be merged into 2.4 soon which will allow you to cache sections of templates.

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markguinn

Community Member, 27 Posts

20 December 2009 at 2:28am

I'd love to hear more (or be pointed to a source to read more) about the partial caching in 2.4. We've faced similar problems and thus far solved them by using limited caching of objects (DataObjectSet, etc.) using Zend_Cache. It's worked ok, but I agree that it be helpful to have more options, such as caching part of a template, and would be happy to help that come to fruition. I see that Zend_Cache is now included in the 2.4 branch too so that's good news.

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Willr

Forum Moderator, 5523 Posts

20 December 2009 at 10:25am

markguinn - currently its not documented due to the fact it hasn't even made the core yet and the API could change in the mean time. Once its been released then you'll hear all about it :)