What is the point of this?
nicholasThompson - February 21, 2008 - 10:08
| Project: | Cache Disable |
| Version: | 5.x-1.0 |
| Component: | Documentation |
| Category: | support request |
| Priority: | minor |
| Assigned: | Unassigned |
| Status: | closed |
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Description
Interesting module - just out of interest, what's the point of it? When would you need to have all the cache completely disabled?
#1
Well, my guess would be when you are developing a site you might want all cache's switched off, particularly when showing a client on a testing site. Of course, this would only make sense if you had for some reason switched on caching. And as far as I can tell this module does exactly the same thing as switching off caching through the performance menu option anyway. So I don't think there is much need for this module in its current state.
If the module was developed and somehow expanded to include setting expire headers and other related apache type caching options it may become useful. Setting it to enforce a no cache rule so site visitors (or testers) are always fed the most recent version of a file would be very useful.
Maybe the developer can explain his/her reasoning for making the module?
#2
Kind of.
There are some sorts of caching which you can't turn off (in Drupal 5, the menu cache; in Drupal 6, the theme registry). This module makes it possible to turn them off. Also, it does not do the same thing as caching in the performance menu item. No matter what you set that to, my module will override it.
With my module, pages will be slow. However, development will be much easier. You should only have this on during development.
#3
#4
Automatically closed -- issue fixed for two weeks with no activity.