{"id":74,"date":"2005-04-30T14:07:26","date_gmt":"2005-04-30T22:07:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.peakepro.com\/?p=74"},"modified":"2005-04-30T14:07:26","modified_gmt":"2005-04-30T22:07:26","slug":"high-performance-php","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/archives\/74-high-performance-php.html","title":{"rendered":"High Performance PHP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" width='72' height='72' style=\"float: right;border: 0px;padding-left: 5px;padding-right: 5px\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/archive\/php.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Having ploughed through writing my upcoming article for <a href=\"http:\/\/phpmag.net\/\">PHP Magazine<\/a> on &#8220;Farming PHP&#8221; I am still motivated to think deeply about PHP in the enterprise and, specifically, under high volumes of web traffic. Having come through several industries in a variety of capacities where PHP is being used effectively for business-critical operations, I am used to responding to concerns about PHP in the enterprise. The one that I am planning to tackle in my next article is that, &#8220;PHP runs heavy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dealing with this consideration really comes down to three points:<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Optimizing<\/b>&#8211;both the source code and through encoders like <a href=\"http:\/\/apc.communityconnect.com\/\">apc<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ioncube.com\/\">IonCube<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zend.com\/store\/products\/zend-encoder.php\">Zend Encoder<\/a>\n<li><b>Caching<\/b>&#8211;using <a href=\"http:\/\/php.net\/outcontrol\">output buffering<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/smarty.php.net\/\">Smarty<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/pear.php.net\/package\/Cache_Lite\">Cache_Lite<\/a> and other techniques\n<li><b>Staticizing<\/b>&#8211;periodically outputting static assets to serve up using lightweight systems like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.acme.com\/software\/thttpd\/\">thttpd<\/a>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Armed with a solid benchmarking tool like <a href=\"http:\/\/httpd.apache.org\/docs\/programs\/ab.html\">ab<\/a>, these three principles comprise a solid foundation for running PHP in the enterprise for very high volume sites. I look forward to fleshing these ideas out in the coming days and responding to your feedback about high performance PHP in the enterprise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having ploughed through writing my upcoming article for PHP Magazine on &#8220;Farming PHP&#8221; I am still motivated to think deeply about PHP in the enterprise and, specifically, under high volumes of web traffic. Having come through several industries in a variety of capacities where PHP is being used effectively for business-critical operations, I am used &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/archives\/74-high-performance-php.html\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">High Performance PHP<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5627,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1268,33],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}