Make Joomla's Nextend Menu faster

If you're using Nextend's Accordion Menu for Joomla, there's a good chance it's slowing you down. Adding this simple patch to make it use cache cut down average loading time by 900 ms on a Joomla 2.5 site.

• Open libraries/nextend/accordionmenu/treebase.php
• Find the following part:

        $this->renderItem();

    }

    

    function renderItem() {

• Replace it with:

        $cache = & JFactory::getCache();

        $cache->call(array($this, 'renderItem'), JURI::getInstance()->toString());

    }

    

    function renderItem($dummy=NULL) {