Re: Re: Functions vs html outpuit

Dave Goodchild wrote:

Thanks, that was what I needed to hear. Cheers. On 03/09/06, Ivo F.A.C. Fokkema <I.F.A.C.Fokkema@lumc.nl> wrote:

On Fri, 01 Sep 2006 16:44:19 +0200, M. Sokolewicz wrote:

Dave Goodchild wrote:

Hi all, this may seem like a silly question, but I am creating a

library of

html form element generation function, for example a textarea fucntion

that

takes rows and cols as parameters, a function that generates a day,

month

and year select box, etc. My question is - is it significantly to

switch

off the parser and emit raw html than calling a function? If it is faster

to

just allow the server to send the html I will not bother.

I'm not quite sure I understand your question. Are you asking if it's faster to parse and process a php script vs. a page of raw HTML? In that case, OF COURSE SERVING A RAW HTML FILE IS FASTER!!! Does the server have to do *anything* with the contents of the HMTL

file? no

Does the server have to do *anything* with the contents of the PHP

file?

yes! of course! it needs to parse and process it BEFORE it can actually server the RESULT of that script. So, if possible, stick to raw HTML files. - tul

That said, if you feel that it saves you a lot of development time (like me) to use such functions, and you're writing a basic app that will not likely attract lots of hits, then go for it. I use a viewForm() function, that takes an array as a argument describing the required form, for all of my projects. Surely it's faster for the server if you just write the HTML, but this is much easier for me to create, edit and re-use in other projects... Just my 2 cts. Ivo -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

It does seem to me that a lot a pages end up with PHP in them to do stuff that could be put in raw HTML. The reason being to make the pages easier to manage and port.

I would go for the optimize late philosophy. Once you have a site running, load testing it with - eg - JMeter. If a PHP page is taking a lot of the time and it could easily be converted to static HTML, do it at that point. If you code raw HTML everywhere, then you might find that you have spent a day messing with a page that only gets hit once a day :-( Best wishes AJ -- www.deployview.com www.nerds-central.com www.project-network.com