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Mike Willbanks' Blog: Using PHP Accelerators

Wed, 26 Dec 2007 08:19:00 -0600

Mike Willbanks has made a series of posts covering the acceleration tools available for you the PHP developer and some of the benchmarks of using them in an application.

Here's the list:

PHP Accelerators : APC vs Zend vs XCache with Zend Framework - a comparison of three tools - APC, the Zend Framework components and the XCache tool
Zend Framework Performance Zend_Loader - a specific look at benchmarks on the Zend_Loader component
PHP Accelerators: The Missing Details - benchmark results (and code) showing results from testing on the Zend_Loader component
Accelerators Revisited - a revisit to some of the benchmarks made previously (to change things based on user contributed comments)

IBM developerWorks: Make PHP apps fast, faster, fastest (Part 1)

Fri, 23 Feb 2007 12:35:00 -0600

The IBM developerWorks website has posted the first part of a series looking at boosting the performance and throughput of your PHP applications through an opcode caching software, specifically XCache.

PHP is a scripting language most often used to create Web applications. It's easy to learn and produces visible results quickly. However, because PHP is interpreted, PHP code is parsed and translated to opcodes every time it executes. An opcode cache eliminates that rework, making PHP applications faster.

They start with the installation of the software (just XCache, they assume everything else is installed) and what to edit in the php.ini file to get things up and running. They follow this up with a sample benchmark for a local phpmyadmin installation.

Clay Loveless' Blog: Monitor PHP Extension Releases with Y! Pipes

Tue, 13 Feb 2007 09:49:00 -0600

Since the recent release of a new tool from Yahoo! - Yahoo! Pipes - developers have been working with it and creating their own "pipes" of functionality, already exploring the boundaries of the application. Clay Loveless is one PHP developer that has already created his own pipe to monitor feeds from several PHP extensions.

The first pipe I've created and published is the PHP Extension Monitor. It's an aggregated feed that pulls in release information on several cool extensions that aren't announced in the PECL feed, such as Suhosin, XCache and DBXML.

Check out his pipe here or you can go create your own by logging in with a Yahoo! ID here.