[PHP] include/require vs performance

2003-01-03 Thread Radek Zajkowski
i am designing a small app that obviuosly works best when I have a lot of global files with functions, which cut down on editing. I will likely have a main page that will contain modules and also load all of the required includes like config etc. in total some 10 files will be reqested. Is

Re: [PHP] include/require vs performance

2003-01-03 Thread Rasmus Lerdorf
Is there, was there ever issue around including a lot files via include(). I am running things on a local server so it's hard to gauge. I don't understand that comment. includes/requires are always (well nearly anyway) local to the server regardless of where the request is coming from. So if

Re: [PHP] include/require vs performance

2003-01-03 Thread Michael J. Pawlowsky
These files are parsed by the interpreter... They are not sent to the client, so I you are thinking bandwidth I dont see how it would affect it. Unless they all output a bunch of data. Of course there will be some overhead for PHP to interpret all that code. Mike *** REPLY SEPARATOR

Re: [PHP] include/require vs performance

2003-01-03 Thread Marek Kilimajer
He likely ment that his local server is simply fast enough that any speed defference is unnoticeable, but on a shared host this might make some difference. Use include/require as you are more comfortable with it. Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: Is there, was there ever issue around including a lot files

Re: [PHP] include/require vs performance

2003-01-03 Thread R . Z .
Sorry if this was not 100% clear. In a nutshell the app I'm making will be available for poeple to use. My feeling is that there will be users using shared servers, which under a stress tend to suck. The only thing in this one I'm doing that;s new to me is having some 20 includes loaded as I