When coding in PHP in variety ways, some way is simple, some is not. But there must be one better way that can provide better performance.
Here is a list of 63+ best practice to optimize PHP code performances
I learn some from it.

  • echo is faster than print.
  • require_once() is expensive
  • If you need to find out the time when the script started executing, $_SERVER[‘REQUEST_TIME’] is preferred to time()
  • str_replace is faster than preg_replace, but strtr is faster than str_replace by a factor of 4
  • It’s better to use select statements than multi if, else if, statements.
  • Close your database connections when you’re done with them
  • $row[‘id’] is 7 times faster than $row[id]
  • Do not use functions inside of for loop, such as for ($x=0; $x < count($array); $x) The count() function gets called each time.
  • When echoing strings it’s faster to separate them by comma instead of dot. Note: This only works with echo, which is a function that can take several strings as arguments.
  • Do NOT use SQL wildcard select. eg. SELECT *

David Yin

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