Optimization Archives

41 PHP optimization tips

As with any tips for optimization, it’s best advised to benchmark your code first rather than just start hacking and slashing your code. With that said and understood, I enjoy reading articles for better optimizing PHP code and came across this one from reinholdweber with 40 tips + 1 bonus tip that looks pretty good. […]

Tips for speeding up your PHP scripts

Jaslabs shares six key points on improving the speed of your dynamic PHP scripts including: object code caching, template system, distributed object caching system, turning off some global PHP variable settings, output compression and database query optimization.

Turck MMCache and PHP encoder

I’m not sure how current or updated this is because I found some broken project links (all links below work) but these projects seem promising and worth closer inspection, especially if one is looking to make their PHP scripts run faster.
Turck MMcache:
… a free open source PHP accelerator, optimizer, encoder and dynamic content cache for […]