Re: Performance

another resounding YES vote on this corner.... [anything so I dont have to do it all myself....] -- Shane On Thursday 13 Dec 2001 5:45 pm, Jim Lucas wrote: > the site that I design for has converted all of the echo""; print() and > any other printing function of php into a simple breakout into HTML. > > ie: > <? > for($i=0;$i<10;$i++) > { > ?>We have done <?=$i?> loop.<? > } > ?> > > We have done performance testing on most everything that can be done out > put and include()/require() stuff. If you would like information on the > performance results I might be able to round up some of the data. It is > faster and cleaner. > > Jim Lucas > www.bend.com > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "René Fournier" <rene.fournier@markada.com> > To: <php-general@lists.php.net>; <mysql@lists.mysql.com> > Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 9:05 AM > Subject: [PHP] Performance > > > Is it true that mixing HTML and PHP--switching back and forth with > <?php ?> tags--slows down performance? (I'm using PHP4.) Is it better > to echo output than to drop out of PHP mode? > > And concerning database connections, my ISP asks that I always close a > MySQL connection with a mysql_close()--which I can understand. But I'm > curious, if I have to make, say, 10 SELECTs throughout a page (in the > header, body, and footer), is it perhaps faster to use the mysql_close() > at the very end of the page (in the bottom of the footer.inc)? In other > words, is there any disadvantage performance-wise (or stability reason) > to open and immediately thereafter close mysql connections? > > Can anyone recommend an article or two on coding techniques for > improving PHP and MySQL performance? I don't wan to spend the rest of my > life optimizing my php code, but if I knew a few basic rules about its > performance characteristics, I might be able to make better decisions > when coding. Thanks. > > ...Rene > > --- > René Fournier, > rene.fournier@markada.com