[RESOLVED] Fastest way to output (echo) entire file

handcraftedweb

I want to factor out large pieces boilerplate HTML into separate files and I'm looking for the fastest way to place the entire contents of the file in the page to be served.

An obvious way to do it is simply

echo ( file_get_contents ( "boilerplate.html" );

Another way to do this would be to make the boilerplate as executable PHP, boilerplate.php:

echo "<ul>\n", 
     "    <li>one</li>\n", 
     "    <li>two</li>\n",
     "    <li>three</li>\n",
     "</ul>\n";

and then just include ("boilerplate.php");

Anybody know which technique is faster, or if there's another option that might be faster? I know I could build my own simple test case, but if anybody knows the answer...
Thanks.

NogDog

If there is no PHP code that needs to be executed, probably the fastest way is via [man]readfile/man.

handcraftedweb

NogDog;10963287 wrote:
If there is no PHP code that needs to be executed, probably the fastest way is via [man]readfile/man.

Ah, very good. Simple, probably well optimized. Thanks!