Topic: Improve CuteNews Performance by Adding Page Caching
Pretty easy to add page caching and it makes a world of difference to your server when hosting cutenews and to your visitors! Open your main index script, say index.php and add this the code to very top before ANYTHING else. Point filemtime to wherever you keep comments.txt. The reason we point to comments.txt is to provide a simple means to determine when to refresh the cache copy on the client side. Personally I produce a dummy.txt file whenever a comment or news is added and point to that. But this is sufficent for most cases to get rolling.
<?php
header("Cache-Control: must-revalidate");
header("Pragma: cache");
$if_modified_since = preg_replace('/;.*$/', '', $_SERVER['HTTP_IF_MODIFIED_SINCE']);
$mtime = filemtime("./cutenews/data/comments.txt");
$gmdate_mod = gmdate('D, d M Y H:i:s', $mtime) . ' GMT';
if ($if_modified_since == $gmdate_mod) {
header("HTTP/1.0 304 Not Modified");
die();
}
header("Last-Modified: $gmdate_mod");
?>
Now we need a simple means to refresh the cache in case of a news post instead of a comment. The easist way to do this is edit addnews.mdu at the very bottom where you find:
msg("info","News added", "The news item was successfully added.</br>$unapproved_status_msg");
Add this right below this:
touch("./data/comments.txt");
Now you have a easy and fairly decent page caching setup for cutenews that will boost performance.
