Re: Preloading functions

> I've been told that with PHP4 we could load a file of personnal > functions > without using include on each page, a sort of preload for each page of > the site. auto_prepend does that, but it's been around longer than just PHP 4... > By the way, is it possible to even precompile a big set of personnal > functions in order to save time ? Yes, no, sort of.... Zend will be offering commercial, proprietary (not free) products to: A) Cache oft-used scripts in the web-server's memory. B) Encode (read: compile) PHP code into distributable loadable binary files to protect intellectual property. It will probably not appreciably increase performance, however. Please check http://zend.com for more details.