[drupal-docs] [drupal-devel] TCPHP goes for Drupal

[Kieran Lal]

On May 27, 2005, at 4:39 PM, Chris Johnson wrote:

> Last Saturday, May 21, Allie Micka[0] and I gave a presentation to the
> Twin Cities PHP users group (TCPHP [1]) about Drupal.  We had about 20
> people attend.  There is now a dramatic increase in the interest in
> using Drupal, and we have a number of professionals recommending and
> implementing sites using Drupal.  One consultant has a client that is
> going to implement 100 web sites using Drupal.  These PHP developers
> and consultants who are new to Drupal are coming up with some concerns
> and questions that seem worth giving some visibility to among the
> Drupal developers -- you all.
>
> I've attempted to summarize some of those concerns below.
>
> 1.  Memory usage.   Drupal quickly exceeds the default 8MB memory  
> limit
> for PHP when a few modules are installed.  This is a problem with
> several solutions, and some work is already done. [2]
>
> 2.  Clearing out settings and other data from modules that were once
> enabled and installed, but are no longer in use.  Many of us know how
> to use SQL to directly manipulate the table data to fix this, but it
> might be nice to have this in the admin code. [3]
>
> 3.  Improved support for load-balanced server farms and other large
> site load distribution technologies.  There is already a patch to
> support replicated databases.  [4][5]
>
> 4.  Advocacy:  As we were generating our slides and talks, we found
> existing information somewhat disparate.  It would be great to have a
> forum or taxonomy where anybody could post existing presentations,
> training information and other "unofficial" advocacy resources.
>
> [0] http://www.tcphp.org/user/3
> [1] TCPHP:  http://www.tcphp.org/
> [2] Memory usage thread:  http://tinyurl.com/9yt89
> [3] Clearing module settings:  http://tinyurl.com/9rpyq
> [4] Drupal server farm:  http://tinyurl.com/89nxg
> [5] Replication support:
> http://cvs.drupal.org/viewcvs/drupal/contributions/sandbox/crackerjm/
> replication/

Sounds like a job for the Drupal Docs marketing team.

Kieran

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