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12/03/09
Why echo is slow in PHP and how to make it really fast
You may have noticed that PHP scripts that echo a lot of content appear to be running with poor performance... Well, the operative word here is "appear". It is a common misconception that "echo is the slowest PHP command"! The problem is actually… more »
11/29/09
How to install the APC PHP Cache on Debian (Lenny)
The APC PHP Cache Control Panel
The APC cache can significantly improve your PHP script performance, just by installing it, whoch basically takes 5 minutes! Here's what I did on my Debian Lenny box... First you may want to have a reference benchmark to see if it actually improves:… more »
06/22/07
About the PHP 5 migration chicken & egg issue
It's been 3 years since PHP 5 has been released. Yet PHP 4 still rules on the vast majority of web hosting platforms.
This is annoying for PHP open source developers who cannot leverage the potential of PHP 5 as long as they need to support PHP 4. Thi… more »
12/21/05
Rasmus: "I don't like SOAP"
At PHP Forum, Rasmus wisefully explained that SOAP is intrinsically broken because it's too complex... just as anything that takes more than 20 minutes to understand.
When it comes to webservices, I myself tend to prefer XML-RPC ("Does distributed co… more »
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