This group is dedicated to optimizing performance of Drupal with coding standards. As such it deals with particular coding guidelines, sharing knowledge and benchmarks that might be integrated into Coder module.
If you are seeking help on high performance/scalability Drupal sites and how to gain a better performance for them, you might have a look at the High Performance group.
Guidelines
- Each coding standard gets its own Wiki page including
- a one line synopsis in the format XY is faster than YX
- a proper description of how it improves performance
- benchmarks from different platforms and PHP versions
- web links to references and additional resources
- You may
- suggest new optimizations by posting a story
- comment on new optimization proposals with insightful input
- perform benchmarks on your platform(s) for existing and new optimizations
Develop an xss and sql injection scanner based on SimpleTest
What I wanna develop for SOC 2008 is a module called security (or add security function to simpletest existing module) to enable users checking their drupal installation against xss and sql injection vulnerabilities.
It will be also good for module developers, in fact they can check their module before submitting them to drupal website. Users could be more protected against vulnerabilities that became from third part modules.
The objective of this work is to realize automated penetration test on drupal installation.
It will be based upon SimpleTest, already used by Rasmus (php core developer) to develop his own closed source xss scanner. SimpleTest is a jUnit similar library written for php.
My module could easily been extended to add more functionalities about security, but basically I think that this two are the most important.
If someone has functionality ideas to improve my project and make it better I'm here, listening for more proposal.
Improving Drupal's page loading performance
This article I wrote should appeal to people interested in high performance Drupal sites. Most of the performance gains are achieved by doing things with the Javascript and Drupal's File API.
http://wimleers.com/article/improving-drupals-page-loading-performance
You can expect another article soon, about the same topic, but then putting it to practice. I'll use the CDN integration module (of which I'm also the maintainer) and the included core patches to do it in just a few simple steps.
Read moreGHOP #127: Benchmark results table
Hi,
I need a table for #127, so it will go here :)
This table is now fully complete :)
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Coder format! or: Make everything Drupal.
In case you don't know, Edward Z. Yang (ezyang) is squashing a lot of bugs in coder_format in the scope of a GHOP task currently.
In case you don't know coder_format, it's a script I wrote some time ago which re-formats one PHP file, or recursively all files in a directory according to Drupal's Coding Standards. Doug Green has been so kind to add it to the Coder module, so if you are a Drupal developer, you probably have (an out-dated version of) it already. Unfortunately, it did not receive that much attention yet.
I do not yet want to promote coder_format with this post. Today, I just want to show you the results of an experiment, which in turn will show you, what you can expect from coder_format.
Guess, what this ugly code snippet is:
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Performance Profile of D6 (3 pages)
This is my GHOP task, for further information look at http://drupal.org/node/196907
The Text from there ;)
For GHOP Drupal-Issue 4 I did a profiling of D6.
The Comp Specs are:
Core2Duo E6320 (overclocked, both Cores 2,24Ghz)
4GB Mem
HDD - don't know :P should be 72000rpm, 8MB Cache or so
Gentoo Linux, Kernel 2.6.21-tuxonice-gentoo-r6 running X
1. Analysis of a fresh installed D6-HEAD (12.09.07) start page after installing (runned cron 1 time manually, please note that the standard page IS NOT saved into db)
Overall stats:
Read morecandidate node, user, and system functions for module splt
Draft list from chx:
Read moreBreak up core page handlers to include files
http://drupal.org/node/140218 now makes this possible: http://drupal.org/node/146172
So let's do it. :-)
Core still needs to be factored out to separate page include files. If you're interested in helping out, grab a module below. Please follow the guidelines listed in the documentation page above. If you feel the documentation page should be changed, comment on the book page so we can keep that all together in one place.
A starting list of functions in node, user, and system: http://groups.drupal.org/node/5239. Note, however, that some of this (especially node) may be touched by the actions patch.
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Performance review of object translation required
We have posted a patch to support object translation of certain Drupal objects (content types, user profile fields and categories, site settings, and so on) to multiple human languages. While we have clear concepts and very good ideas for the user interface (which we though before that would not be easy), performance-wise we are at crossroads. We would welcome beginner as well as expert reviewers to come and share their performance ideas about Drupal object translation, so Drupal 6 can include a mature translation infrastructure, advancing ahead of the competition. ;) We need your input!
"Introduce dynamic object translation API (optimize this!)" http://drupal.org/node/141461
Read moreRandom ID Generation Write up
So, I've had a few inquiries over the last few months about random node generation as I have implemented it successfully for a client. I have posted a full write up of it on my blog. Feel free to comment on it here or on my blog; I will post a patch when I have a chance and if there is interest.
Article link: http://earnestberry.com/node/13
Read moreModule "Black-Hole" revival
There are a "LOT" of contrib modules out there. Even more so, there are a great deal of good modules that have been neglected. Lets be honest, a developers time is precious, and we all get spread thin and a bit scattered sometimes, and we leave our children (modules) to the way side for other things (like "bill-paying" modules/development so we can eat from time to time :) ).
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