Optimize Your PHP For Efficient Web Applications

PHP code for web sites and web applications should always be optimized. A poorly-written PHP web site may work just fine without too many concurrent users, but as soon as traffic starts building up it could buckle. There are an unlimited number of ways to implement anything in PHP, but certain functions and techniques are much more efficient than others. Every PHP developer should spend some time learning the most efficient ways to code, and luckily there is a great tutorial article with 52 PHP programming tips and benchmarked examples for efficiency and faster code.

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Ircmaxell of JoomlaPerformance.com has written an excellent six page article comparing several PHP functions. He has 52 tips, adapted from the 40 PHP Optimization Tips article by Reinhold Weber, where he has personally tested and benchmarked PHP functions and compared best ways to code.

{cbauthor}This six page article is a must read for any PHP programmer, and even more of a necessity for anybody building a large scale web site or web application. Article pages are listed below.

Page 1 - Intro
Page 2 - Variable Functions
Page 3 - Functions and Methods
Page 4 - Storage
Page 5 - Misc. Functions
Page 6 - Top 10 List