Include file

Yamakazi

Hey guys,

I got a rather weird problem. I am programming OO and i use a file called: "classes.inc" that has all my classes in it. Now my website uses frames so i have two pages at the same time that use the classes.inc file
I included them in both pages and it worked fine. Now i just migrated from a test windows machine to a Novell machine. And for one reason or another my second page loads 5 to 6 seconds after the first one has. If i remove the include of the classes.inc file in either of the pages they both load in at the same time (very fast).

I renamed the file classes.inc to classes2.inc so each page has his own classes file but still i takes 6 seconds to load the second page. Last i stripped down the classes2.inc file so it had only 2 functions left. Now classes.inc is 79k and classes.inc is 1k.
After doing this the pages load as they did on the windows machine.

Now the question is why is this. I can't imagine that a include file of 79k is so big it takes 6 seconds to process. Does anyone now how to resolve this problem. Because i want just that one classes.inc file with everything in it.

TIA

AstroTeg

Could it be a buffering issue?

Yamakazi

What do you mean by buffering issue?
How can i check something like that?

Update:
Yesterday i stated that i stripped the left pages include file to the minimum and so reduced it's size from 79k to 1k ... well that didn't do it either. Sometimes the pages load at the same speed but other times the left page loads in 6 seconds after the right page.

TIA

AstroTeg

I had a friend who was having a similar problem and he didn't explain the exact details very clearly but if I remember it was something to do with PHP and the web server buffering the data. As the output is assembled by PHP, the output gets buffered and not usually sent immediately to the browser (it tends to get sent in chuncks or blocks). I believe he used ob_start() and ob_flush() to improve the performance, but I could be wrong.

Yamakazi

Thx i'll try that. And keep you informed.

Yamakazi

UPDATE:

Ok, the buffer seems to give me some better preformence but isn't quite doing it yet. When you refresh the page it's still extremelly slow. But i found out what's the main problem.

Both pages use another include wich is causing the problem: Connection.inc

This include file contains the following code:

mysql_connect("dataServer","foo","bar")or die("Can't connect to database server.");

Now the problem seems to be that the server makes two connections. (one per page). I have the luck of having a back up server. I copied the database to the other server. And made some changes to my script. Now one page connects to the server and the other to the back up server. And guess what. The page loads super fast.

Offcourse having one page connect to the back-up server isn't an option for me so does anyone know how i can have just one shared connection for both pages? Is this possible?

TIA