Re: [is it time for something other than html?] RE: Templating system

[Barry Hoggard <ba...@investorama.com>]

We do what you describe with mason all of the time, since one can cache 
individual components on their own schedules.  If you look at:

http://www.investorama.com/guides/stocks

Everything above "you are here" isn't cached, except for "Who's online 
now", which is updated to show a number above a certain threshhold every 1 
minute.  "My Email" is updated every 3 minutes to show a flag if there's 
new mail.  The e-mail component is of course keyed to a specific individual 
when they're logged in.

The line that does this for mail is:

return if mc_cache_self(key => $ENV{REMOTE_USER}, expire_in=>'+3min');

The featured articles are updated once per day, as is the box with the 
number of our members that have "joined" this guide.  The number of people 
online that have joined the guide is updated every minute.

I could go on, but you get the idea.  The way mason works, the actual work 
is all done the first time a page or component is accessed, and is then 
stored using MLDBM.

At 12:22 PM 7/27/00 -0700, Jauder Ho wrote:

>...
>I could go off about why HTML sucks for dynamic page caching. If there was
>somehow a way to cache say the template, leaving only the same dynamic
>portion uncached, it would certainly help things along quite a bit. If
>anyone knows of a good way of doing this I would certainly be interested
>in hearing it.
>
>--Jauder



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