Grrrrrrr! Just spent ages (well, 2hours) on a precaching system for my PHP code that didn't work out! Hang on, I'll backtrack a bit...
My website is using a php engine that picks at snippets of html from the database, and builds them up to form the page. A typical page may use 5 of these html snippets, each at maybe 5kb in size. I was sat thinking, looking at the debug-timer, and saw that the templates were one of the more time consuming aspects. So I said, I know, I'll save the db a bit, and at the start of the script, read all the templates that I'll need into a global variable, and call them from that. Simple, 5 db calls put into 1, and templates taken out of memory. So why, oh why, has the time taken actually increased??? Does anyone have sufficient working knowledge of PHP to give me a hint at why this has happened? Also, am I right in thinking that as the website hits increase, the db will be put under increasing pressure, so it serves off better being called only once instead of 5 times (Even though more data is taken out of it??). It's late, my eyes are blurring, and I'm annoyed. Very annoyed! Regards, Andy -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
