RE: [PHP] High bandwidth application tips

--- Wouter van Vliet <wouter@springt.nl> wrote: > One time I had this script somebody else wrote. About 1000 lines, a > complete CMS in one file. It if'ed on simple $_GET vars about 10 times, > by opening a new if statement each and every time. After I changed this > to if ($_GET['p'] == 'one') { .. } elseif ($_GET['p'] == > 'two') { .. }; > and so on the script became TWO SECONDS faster. Another minor performance tip to add to this is to use $p in your conditional statements rather than $_GET['p']. Of course, you should filter this data also, but try something like this: if ($_GET['p'] is valid data) { $p = $_GET['p']; } When you use $p in the rest of the script, you save PHP the small discovery time required for $_GET['p']. If you have many conditional statements, this minor improvement can be amplified slightly, and if you have many users (a few million a day, for example), this improvement is further amplified. Hope that helps. Chris ===== My Blog http://shiflett.org/ HTTP Developer's Handbook http://httphandbook.org/ RAMP Training Courses http://www.nyphp.org/ramp