Also, for reference, this is how your request are processed.
1. HTTP request from user for page.php
2. PHP parses the page
3. PHP includes header.php, PHP parses that page
4. PHP includes "lets say" content.php, PHP parses that page
5. PHP includes footer.php, PHP parses that page
6. The final HTML is returned
7. The CSS is included asynchronously, along with any images
8. The Javascript is included synchronously, then executed
9. Images are included
9. DomReady is fired
On Mar 19, 12:36 pm, Christoph <sbch...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Brian,
>
> Thank you!
>
> I dumped the website comps onto my personal server and it works
> flawlessly. Seems like the setup here at work must have a bug on the
> server side somewhere.
>
> Hmm, guess it is time to have the developer look at the server code.
> This could be a nightmare now.
>
> Thanks for the help though.
>
> -Christoph
>
> On Mar 18, 6:06 pm, brian <bally.z...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 8:30 PM, Christoph <sbch...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > Hi guys,
>
> > > I have a quick problem I stumbled upon.
>
> > > Here is the background on the situation. I'm creating a website that
> > > uses templates for the header, body, and footer. In a sense it is a
> > > modular website with all .php extensions being called in the body
> > > document using <?php include("header.php"); ?> for the header and <?
> > > php include("footer.php"); ?> being called for the footer.
>
> > > Here is the problem.
>
> > > When any browser renders the page, the page loads the php first and
> > > then it pauses and gets hung up loading the jQuery and CSS for around
> > > 10-15 seconds. Glitchy is the best description. I tried the document
> > > ready tag on the jQuery code being called and it does not do a thing
> > > to improve the problem. When the document is first loaded, all the
> > > hidden elements from a jQuery cycle plug are visible, the nav images
> > > are missing, and depending upon which browser is viewing the page the
> > > specific css style is missing for 10-15 seconds.
>
> > > I converted the page back into a .html extension file and it works
> > > perfectly like it should with the document ready tag.
>
> > > Does anyone have any ideas or help? If possible I'd like to stick
> > > with the .php templates.
>
> > The browser does not load the "php" bits first. PHP parses scripts and
> > outputs a single page (HTML, in this case) to the browser. The only
> > way in which it would load the php parts first is if you were using JS
> > to fetch them somehow (which doesn't even make sense).
>
> > The problem you're seeing is probably due to some nasty PHP issue,
> > you're using jquery incorrectly, or you've got very broken HTML.
>
> > Also, Firebug can cause jquery pages to load extremely slowly. I've
> > experienced much longer than 10 to 15 second load times so I'd check
> > that if you have it installed.
