Post - 40 PHP Optimization Tips

-HAL- · November 11th, 2007

Just came across this really nice article.
I knew several of them, but there's a few new interesting ones I'll test on my next PHP programming project..

If a method can be static, declare it static. Speed improvement is by a factor of 4.
echo is faster than print.
Use echo's multiple parameters instead of string concatenation.
Set the maxvalue for your for-loops before and not in the loop.
Unset your variables to free memory, especially large arrays.
Avoid magic like __get, __set, __autoload
require_once() is expensive
Use full paths in includes and requires, less time spent on resolving the OS paths.
If you need to find out the time when the script started executing, $_SERVER[’REQUEST_TIME’] is preferred to time()
See if you can use strncasecmp, strpbrk and stripos instead of regex

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November 11th, 2007
-HAL- Administrator Posts: 860 Country: Microchips: 2,732 Gadgets	Post - 40 PHP Optimization Tips Just came across this really nice article. I knew several of them, but there's a few new interesting ones I'll test on my next PHP programming project.. If a method can be static, declare it static. Speed improvement is by a factor of 4. echo is faster than print. Use echo's multiple parameters instead of string concatenation. Set the maxvalue for your for-loops before and not in the loop. Unset your variables to free memory, especially large arrays. Avoid magic like __get, __set, __autoload require_once() is expensive Use full paths in includes and requires, less time spent on resolving the OS paths. If you need to find out the time when the script started executing, $_SERVER[’REQUEST_TIME’] is preferred to time() See if you can use strncasecmp, strpbrk and stripos instead of regex More here: http://reinholdweber.com/?p=3