Comments on: PHP Best Practices in Performance – Part 1 http://www.devtheweb.net/blog/2010/02/09/php-best-practices-in-performance/ for Those Who Develop Something on the Web Wed, 28 Jul 2010 03:56:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Julius Beckmann http://www.devtheweb.net/blog/2010/02/09/php-best-practices-in-performance/comment-page-1/#comment-255 Julius Beckmann Wed, 10 Feb 2010 07:33:02 +0000 http://www.devtheweb.net/blog/?p=926#comment-255 1. Is a myth. Ouput buffering and other stuff have much more impact than that. 2. Micro optimization. You can use global variables for caching global application stuff. 3. Correct. Best practice is to define a constant like "DIR_INC". 4. Correct. Check out my loop battle :D http://juliusbeckmann.de/blog/php-foreach-vs-while-vs-for-the-loop-battle.html 7. Persistent database connections are normally faster and should NOT be closed! Although a not persistent connection will always be closed on script end. 1. Is a myth. Ouput buffering and other stuff have much more impact than that.

2. Micro optimization. You can use global variables for caching global application stuff.

3. Correct. Best practice is to define a constant like “DIR_INC”.

4. Correct. Check out my loop battle :D
http://juliusbeckmann.de/blog/php-foreach-vs-while-vs-for-the-loop-battle.html

7. Persistent database connections are normally faster and should NOT be closed! Although a not persistent connection will always be closed on script end.

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