Re: Includes eating up my time

Hi Dave, > PHP general list, > > This is probably obvious to people who are good at PHP, but I'm > > I have a PHP based CMS (content management system) built, which has > grown and become quite robust. It's now spread out over about 30 files, > and each file represents one class within the object oriented design. > Each are a couple hundred lines of code, and two or three of the most > critical classes are over a thousand lines of code. It may just be a 'dave' thing but my stuff does that too :-) > While first building it, I didn't really anticipate quite that many > files. What I did is have a file called "includes.php", which list all > the files to be included. Then I in turn included "includes.php" at the > beginning of my "index.php" file. Every page request passes through the > "index.php" file, so that basically means every single file is included > at the start of every new page request. Ahh the 'dave' thing returns :-) > I'm using Zend Studio, which has a "profile" option, which shows how > long it takes for my PHP scripts to complete a request. It has a > breakdown showing percentages of which scripts are using that processing > time. Real dave's use vi & top :-P > My second question is: Is there a systematic way of determining how to > incrementally include files that people use? Or is it just a constant > process of testing and checking? > > Thank you for any advice. What version of PHP are you using ? I moved over to 5 and it has a nice cute feature :- <http://uk3.php.net/__autoload> which basically only loads classes when they are required. PHP 5 has some other nice to have features and will cause you a bit of work if you migrate to it BUT it is worth the effort especially in the light of 888 :-) As for your performance problems, the times are heavily dependant on the hardware and underlying OS & server load etc. without further info, diagnosing problems will be dificult. TTFN Dave php/general-2007-07-31.tx php-general martin@autotelic.com +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Dave Restall, Computer Nerd, Cyclist, Radio Amateur G4FCU, Bodger | | Mob +44 (0) 7973 831245 Skype: dave.restall Radio: G4FCU | | email : dave@restall.net Web : Not Ready Yet :-( | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Big book, big bore. | | -- Callimachus | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+