[Templates] Caching Output of Components

[Perrin Harkins]

On Sun, 2006-08-06 at 21:29 -0400, Robert James Kaes wrote:
> On Sun, 06 Aug 2006, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
[...]
> > I've looked at this a number of times, and never gotten very far.  If I may
> > misquote Perrin

You may!

> Having thought about the problem a bit more, I can likely simulate what
> I'm looking for by using a template that INSERTs the "dynamic" content
> that was generated by a cronjob periodically.  This would move the heavy
> DB processing offline relative to the page view.

That's a sensible, easy-to-build approach.  It should be faster than the
cache plugin I wrote, since it won't need to check expiration times (or
use the fairly slow Cache::Cache modules).

If you want to go for the gold star, you can use the mtime from your
inserted file as the Last-Modified header on the page and make your app
handle If-Modified-Since requests.

- Perrin