This weekend I tackled coding up a Drupal feature I’ve been sorely missing on many a past project: static page caching. My yet-to-be-named module is a replacement for Drupal 4.7’s built-in caching. Instead of storing the pre-generated cached pages in the database, the module stores them in a cache directory on the file system.

Big deal, right? Actually, as I’ll demonstrate below, it makes all the difference.