Quick question on speed

[Duskwalker]

Hey, I have some pages with over 5k lines of code and I am worried this is lowing down the pages and using up server resources.

if (!$pet) {
} else {

THEN ABOUT 400 lines of code here

}

Would this be processed faster if I just did an include("info.php"); and stuck that 400 lines in the info.php?

I am just looking for the fastest solution. This is just a small example, but I never use includes except for header and footer. So if this makes it faster, my sites performance will improve vastly.

-Dusk

[LordShryku]

I'd think it wouldn't help. If anything, I'd think it would slow it down even more. The way you have it, php goes through the file and does it's thing. With includes, php has to go through the file, find the included file, read it, and pick back up in the old file. If anything, I'd say that if you have that much code, you have to either be doing some serious processing, or have room for script improvments.

[rachel2004]

Maybe I'm missing something, but is there a reason why you don't just benchmark it either way?

http://www.php.net/microtime