Question regarding includes

[Dolemite50]

Hello,

I am trying to go through and optimize my code.

I am using Laser's text prepping functions on a lot of pages.

function prepIn($input) { 
$input = trim($input); 
if (!get_magic_quotes_gpc()) { 
return addslashes($input); 
}  

return $input; 
}


function prepOut($input) { 
$input = stripslashes($input); 
return htmlspecialchars($input); 
}{ 

And want to use them as an include file. I would say about 80% of my pages use the prepout and maybe 10% use prepIn. Would you include them both in one file or seperate them? I know this sounds picky,.but I'm trying to get some general "good practice" knowledge here. How pressing is it on a server to be declaring functions that won't be used?

[TheDefender]

It wouldn't be that pressing to have them on the same included file. They aren't utilized until you called them anyhow, and given what it is they do, and how clean and simple they are, it shouldn't slow things down at all... I have scripts I wrote with 10-15 functions on the included file function file (doing a lot more than both of these functinos combined), and at times, I may call only one function or two; and my scripts don't slow down one bit.

[Dolemite50]

Thanks for the advice. 🙂