Yes! Please release some of these results. I am *very* interested. I have been coding using the method you demonstrate (terminating PHP any time possible, and rarely, if ever, using echo and print).
I would love to know how much, if any, difference it makes. Mike Jim Lucas wrote: > the site that I design for has converted all of the echo""; print() and any > other printing function of php into a simple breakout into HTML. > > ie: > <? > for($i=0;$i<10;$i++) > { > ?>We have done <?=$i?> loop.<? > } > ?> > > We have done performance testing on most everything that can be done out put > and include()/require() stuff. If you would like information on the > performance results I might be able to round up some of the data. It is > faster and cleaner. > > Jim Lucas > www.bend.com > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "René Fournier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 9:05 AM > Subject: [PHP] Performance > > > Is it true that mixing HTML and PHP--switching back and forth with > <?php ?> tags--slows down performance? (I'm using PHP4.) Is it better > to echo output than to drop out of PHP mode? > > And concerning database connections, my ISP asks that I always close a > MySQL connection with a mysql_close()--which I can understand. But I'm > curious, if I have to make, say, 10 SELECTs throughout a page (in the > header, body, and footer), is it perhaps faster to use the mysql_close() > at the very end of the page (in the bottom of the footer.inc)? In other > words, is there any disadvantage performance-wise (or stability reason) > to open and immediately thereafter close mysql connections? > > Can anyone recommend an article or two on coding techniques for > improving PHP and MySQL performance? I don't wan to spend the rest of my > life optimizing my php code, but if I knew a few basic rules about its > performance characteristics, I might be able to make better decisions > when coding. Thanks. > > ...Rene > > --- > René Fournier, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]