Fortunately, PHP does a good job of streamlining the preprocessing time, so I try to use PHP’s functions as much as possible when dealing with dynamic content and data. Data sources and PHP ...

While specific connectivity functions will depend on the type of database you are using, for databases that support it, PHP offers the pconnect function.

A number of different tools have been developed to help with PHP performance profiling, including Benchmark (a PEAR project), DBG, Xdebug and Advanced PHP Debugger (another PEAR project). If you're ...