Re:Let's make the web faster: PHP performance tips by Google
by eropple on Friday June 03, 2011 @02:41AM
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Agreed. Said other bits in another comment, but:
-mysql_query()? BAD GOOGLE WEBMASTER, NO COOKIE FOR YOU. Seriously - there is no good reason not to use PDO, or at least MDB2. (Doctrine is better, but it's just a superset of PDO.)
-References are a modern PHP programmer's (quiet you, stop laughing!) best friend. "Don't use shortened variables because you'll copy data! Just reuse the $_POST['barf']!" Never mind that $foo = &$_POST['barf'] achieves both goals...
-mysql_query()? BAD GOOGLE WEBMASTER, NO COOKIE FOR YOU. Seriously - there is no good reason not to use PDO, or at least MDB2. (Doctrine is better, but it's just a superset of PDO.)
-References are a modern PHP programmer's (quiet you, stop laughing!) best friend. "Don't use shortened variables because you'll copy data! Just reuse the $_POST['barf']!" Never mind that $foo = &$_POST['barf'] achieves both goals...