Re[2]: [PHP] PHP Website Architecture

Hello Ryan, Friday, May 7, 2004, 4:51:45 PM, you wrote: RA> Nearly all programs can be written in *one* very large .php file but just RA> thinking of going back in to make changes 3 months down the road would be a RA> nightmare. I was just looking at this the other day - I had a local site running here and profiling the index page took around 800ms with 30 include files. Out of interest I dumped a load of those files into one and re-profiled it (11 includes rather than 300) and the load time dropped dramatically (300ms). I know there are other factors at play here (Windows vs. Unix, cached vs. needing to seek across the hard drive every time), but the difference still surprised me. Of course I could never cope with all of those files "as one", but I will definitely keep them split up locally and combine into one when published live. -- Best regards, Richard Davey http://www.phpcommunity.org/wiki/296.html