In today’s competitive world of business over the internet, every online business website needs latest web technology solutions with best web application development. But there are intense competitors when it comes to developing an eye-catching website and making it function effectively or perform fast and easy multi-tasking. There are so many platforms for website designing like static HTML, flash websites and many more. PHP is one such platform that effectively works the best for custom cutting-edge web solutions. Another major feature for opting PHP is the cost advantage. Designing, customizing, developing and modifying PHP based websites is done well with affordable investment. Major web development companies offer professional web services on PHP including PHP website development, developing web application, CMS development, custom PHP website design, static/dynamic and interactive MYSQL websites designing and much more with PHP Web Development.

PHP is very well known and recognized programming language for custom website development with its fully functional

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After reading an article some time ago entitled “40 Tips for optimizing your php Code” (and some others that are suspiciously similar), I decided to redo it, but properly this time with more accurate tips, providing references and citations for each and every one. The result is this list of over 50 PHP optimisation tips… Update: The list is more like 50+ PHP tips and tricks these days. Enjoy!

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I made a tongue-in-cheek comment in another question thread calling PHP a terrible language and it got down-voted like crazy. Apparently there are lots of people here who love PHP.

So I'm genuinely curious. What am I missing? Why makes PHP a good language?

Here are my reasons for disliking it:

PHP has inconsistent naming of built-in and library functions. Predictable naming patterns are important in any design.

The PHP developers constantly deprecate built-in functions and lower-level functionality. A good example is when they deprecated pass-by-reference for functions. This created a nightmare for anyone doing, say, function callbacks.

A lack of consideration in redesign. The above deprecation eliminated the ability to, in many cases, provide default keyword values for functions. They fixed this in PHP 5, but they deprecated the pass-by-reference in PHP 4!

Poor execution of name spaces (formerly no name spaces at all). Now that name spaces exist, what do we use as the dereference character? Backslash! The character used universally for escaping, even in PHP!


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PHP Speedy is a script that you can install on your web server to automatically speed up the download time of your web pages. Here’s an example, from a test page:

Before PHP Speedy — 14 requests that took 4.44 seconds


After PHP Speedy — 4 requests that took 1.1 seconds


PHP Speedy automatically joined together all the appropriate files and compressed them, greatly reducing the load time of the page. Let’s see what Yahoo’s Y-Slow makes of this:
Before PHP Speedy — Grade F (44)


After PHP Speedy — Grade A (96)


You can have a look at the test page for yourself:
Test page without compression
Test page with compression

Download

You can download PHP Speedy from this link: PHP Speedy 0.5.2 download

Installation — via auto-install


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After reading an article some time ago entitled “40 Tips for optimizing your php Code” (and some others that are suspiciously similar), I decided to redo it, but properly this time with more accurate tips, providing references and citations for each and every one.

The result is this list of over 50 PHP optimisation tips…

Update: The list is more like 50+ PHP tips and tricks these days.

Enjoy!

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