This is part two in my caching series. Part one covered the concept behind the full page caching as well as potential problems to keep in mind. This part will focus on implementing the concept in actual PHP code. By the end of this you’ll have a working implementation that can cache full pages and invalidate them intelligently when an update happens.
Requirements
I’ll provide a fully functional framework with the simple application I used to get my benchmark figures. You’ll need the following software to be able to run it.
- Nginx. I’m not sure which exact version but I generally use and recommend the latest development version.
- PHP 5.3.0. I recommend at least 5.3.3 so you’ll have PHP-FPM for your fastcgi process management.
- MySQL
- Memcached
The Framework
I’ll be referencing the code on github instead of pasting it in this post to keep the size down, so you will probably want to download it.
- Words by: Martin Fjordvald
- February 18, 2011
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