Re: [Phpwiki-talk] linking scheme and markup

[Gary B. <ga...@in...>]

On Thu, 8 Nov 2001, Adam Shand wrote:

>
> > Hmm. You remind me of an optimization I've thought about in the past:
> > when a page is saved after editing, convert it to xhtml and store it.
> > When pages are served, there's no transformation to do.

Almost right. If someone creates or deletes pages which are linked to from
a cached page then the cached page will be stale. You'd have to rebuild
them then as well.

> > When a page is pulled for editing, you have to convert it to wiki
> > markup again. The downside, of course, is twice as much code
> > (converting between the two formats).

Or you could just store the HTML and the wiki-markup in the DB, with the
wiki-version being the authoritative version.

> the really good thing about this though is that you get the static page
> cache.  for busy wiki sites having a static page cache becomes a necissity
> pretty quickly if you want to survive a slashdotting. :-(

If you are running your PhpWiki on your own webserver then you can put a
reverse-proxy in front of it. This is what /. does if I remember
correctly -- all pages have a five minute expiry time or something.

Gary

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