Choose only the Best PHP Developers India for your Website requirements

If you have requirement for a PHP website, you need to choose only the best PHP Developers India. Everybody wants to choose the best, but very people can zero in on the best PHP web developers who have the best of PHP knowledge.

But, there are various ways and means that will help determine which developers you need to avoid.

Watch out for Disinterest

You know you have come across the wrong PHP web development expert, if the developer is completely disinterested in your project and is just taking it up because he/she doesn’t want to lose out on a client. The telltale signs of such PHP developer India, is that they don’t want to listen to what you have to say and have no questions to ask of you when you are done explaining your project to them. All they want to do is add another client to the list without making an effort to listen to what their clients have to say.

Watch out for lack of expertise

Some PHP development experts claim to have the best talent in the world, but when the push comes to the shove they have no expertise in PHP and can only offer an unreliable project that doesn’t work at any level. It’s important that you don’t take web developers at face value and look for proof regarding their expertise. So, you need to go through the websites designed by them and check them for any errors from the end users perspective.

What you also need to do is ask for client reference and ensure that they were no problems regarding their website from the client side. Only after you are very sure of their expertise, you need to hire their services.

Watch out for lack of communication

Your interaction with the PHP website design experts will give you an idea about the way they interact with their clients. During the discussion you need to be assured about their communication skills and the fact that they will keep you posted about the development of your project. If you are not sure about the importance given by the PHP developer to communication with the client, it’s important that you look for somebody else. This is because many –a-times, it a total lack of communication that pinches the project and leads to the failure of its development process.

It’s important that you keep these ways and means in mind in order to hire the kind of PHP developer who can fulfill all your Website Design requirements.

50+ PHP optimisation tips revisited

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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Defend PHP; convince me it isn

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 - automatically speed up the download time

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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50+ PHP optimisation tips revisited

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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