Once you've gotten into PHP and understand how things work inside some of the more complex scripts, you're not left with much more about the language that you can learn, save one thing. Sure, it's easy to zip out several scripts an a row, making them work just like they're supposed to, but at what cost? How well do they do their job? This new article from PHPBuilder just might shed some light on a few things that could make those scripts really sing.

In this article, the author provides a few "golden rules" for keeping your PHP scripts working at one hundred percent, with specific examples of each one (there's 8 of them listed, including 'Optimize your HTML code' and 'Reduce your PHP Code').

They're not bad suggestions, but most of them (like all good things) are the simplest things you can do in your scripts. Some of the suggestions for reducing and optimizing your PHP code are good, but some of them get more complex for the person coding the page - but I suppose if that's better for the end user, then so be it.