[Resolved] PHP page or HTML mixed in?

Corpheous

When designing a site for speed which would be a faster page?

a) A site designed with it's pages almost entirely in PHP having HTML only when absolutely neccesary.

b) A site designed with all it's PHP functions before the main block of HTML coding.

There will be a lot of math in the page along with switch cases number generating etc. (it's a php browser game).

So which is the prefered method?

Threehearts

Hi!
On a typical nowaday's server there is hardly any difference, since php should run so fast that the effects are minimal as compared to for example throughput differences in the clients internet connection.

at least where straight php is concerned.

the design of your code can make a difference though, for example a high number of db requests of excessive searching might make a difference ...

there should be threads around covering that issue though.

greetings, jakob

Corpheous

Would a high number of session variables also slow down the loading of the game's pages? I've got to do a lot of updating and such with the databases, is there any particular area that will slow it down the most?

Weedpacket

Originally posted by Corpheous
Would a high number of session variables also slow down the loading of the game's pages? I've got to do a lot of updating and such with the databases, is there any particular area that will slow it down the most?

Poor database design and badly-written queries; they can really soak up the cycles (The number of times I've seen people write "SELECT * " when all they want to know is whether there are any rows or not...).

Big session data shouldn't be too much of a hassle: performance can be improved by writing session handlers to keep the data in a database instead of the default filesystem method: that can provide a big gain, because the session data then tends to get held in memory rather than on disk.