Hi, Just a quick note to say that after 6 months of effort and some serious late nights, we released our new PHP5 website last night at www.1791diamonds.com Thanks to list member James McGlinn for some helpful advice regarding performance, and other members for insightful on-list APC/eaccelerator debate - this has made quite a difference in terms of php speed improvements.
Any feedback or questions from a PHP or techie perspective are welcome (I know the XHTML isn't as clean as I'd like yet...)! I think we made some cool use of scriptaculous/prototype to make some neat animations and ajax in the 'design your own ring' section and the product catalogue - looking back 5 years ago, I'm amazed that this sort of stuff can be done easily in the browser now without resorting to Flash or similar 'fat' technologies. The URLs are search engine friendly (as much as poss) by piping though from apache to php to pre-process and rewrite - again looking back at how we used to do this 10 years ago using mime-type hacks, it's all just so easy now. All product images are automatically css-spritemapped on the server using imagemagick to save server requests and reduce files sizes; and JS is first compressed, then packed using free online tools. This makes a great difference for fat JS libs like scriptaculous/prototype taking 270KB down to 50ishKB! Rendering uses smarty, using the in-built caching (modified slightly to also cache HTTP headers for our Ajax JSON headers). Also, if any of you geeks are up at 7am and are near getting engaged, watch TV3's Sunrise over the next couple of weeks for a chance to win the $10K diamond engagement ring that Carly Flynn is wearing as part of our launch promo! Cheers, -Dan *Dan Khan* Technical Director 1791 Diamonds Ltd www.1791diamonds.com DISCLAIMER: The views and opinions expressed in this e-mail are my own and do not necessarily represent the views of 1791 Diamonds Ltd. The information contained in this email message is intended only for the use of the person or entity to whom it is addressed and may contain information that is CONFIDENTIAL and may be LEGALLY PRIVILEGED and exempt from disclosure under applicable laws. If you read this message and are not the addressee you are notified that use, dissemination, distribution, or reproduction of this message is prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify us immediately via reply email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and delete the original message. We regularly scan our IT systems for viruses, however, you should also scan this message and any attached files for viruses. 1791 Diamonds Ltd accepts no liability for any loss caused either directly or indirectly by a virus arising from the use of this message or any attached file. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
