Getphp : PHP and MySQL resources

Before we begin any installation steps, the first thing we will need to do is download the PHP zip file from PHP. The version available at the time of this publishing is 5.1.4. The first step is to extract all of the files from the downloaded zip file into C:PHP (create the folder if it doesnt already exist). You may choose a different location, although it is not [...]

PHP (Hypertext Pre-Processor) language is recognized as one of the fastest growing web programming languages on the web industry as well as on the software development today. PHP has the strong execution utility coupled with its understandable coding syntax, thus it becomes the excellent choice for software developers to deliver rapid application development [...]

1. If a method can be static, declare it static. Speed improvement is by a factor of 4.

2. echo is faster than print.

3. Use echo’s multiple parameters instead of string concatenation.

4. Set the maxvalue for your for-loops before and not in the loop.

5. Unset your variables to free memory, especially large arrays.

6. Avoid magic like [...]