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The advanced caching module is mostly a set of patches and a supporting module to bring caching to Drupal core in places where it is needed yet currently unavailable. These include caching nodes, comments, taxonomy (terms, trees, vocabularies and terms-per-node), path aliases, and search results.

The module maintains a series of dedicated cache tables and utilizes Drupal's caching API to safely and effeciently cache data. The main beneficiary from these caching strategies will be authenticated users who have only one role (ie, non-admins). This is a group of site users that are traditionally unaffected by Drupal's page cache mechanism.

How it does it

Beyond installing and enabling the advcache module, you must apply some or all of the patches that come with it. The typical pattern for applying patches is:

  cd path/to/Drupal/
  patch < sites/all/modules/advcache/search_cache.patch

You may have to answer some questions about the locations of the files that are to be patched.

Here is a description of the included patches and whether there are any reasons you shouldn't use them. WARNING: Three of the caching patches are known to have bugs in them and have been marked as broken. Please don't use them and revert them if you have applied them. Of course, patches to fix them are welcome!:

Enables custom requiring and hiding of designated modules at admin/modules. Good for Drupal distros and hosts.

Why Do I Need It?

Unfortunately Drupal does not include the powers of immortality or invincibility. You may someday get hit by a truck, or even just decide that you no longer want to maintain the site. So someone else may have to take over.

Where do they start? I know you documented the site really well, but the next person doesn't want to read those 14 binders of documentation you left behind. They can always go through all the administration screens and look for the information, but that can take a lot of time and even those pages don't tell you everything. Some things you're only going to get by looking directly into the database.

This is what the Site Documentation module is designed to do. In addition, it will detect some problems that may exist in your installation, and optionally correct some of them.

This is NOT a standalone module - it must be used with the either the oyoaha Liquid Layout module , which allows for direct html styl

In an effort to minimize the duplication of jcarousel based modules this module is being deprecated for the Drupal 6 version onward and is being replaced by the

This module logs user agents for nodes and comments. It also adds a "view user agents" permission that can be used in themes to show the user agent a given post was made with.