In-function caching can be used to greatly improve the performance of our software. Applying this technique effectively is important to avoid spiraling memory usage and bizarre bugs that can be caused by old cache data lingering around.
What is meant by a Front Controller. This is a term used to describe a common place that all page requests are passed through before processing begins. This is ideal to setup your application environment (database connections, .ini configurations, etc). We will be using it to take the request and manipulate it to find the corresponding template. Once the template is found we then process it and then render it.
As is the case with data compression in general the greatest savings to are to be made when the formats to be compressed are of a textual nature. Whilst ASCII or HTML files can be easily compressed using gzip by 75% or more, already optimized files formats such as JPEG's, executable or archive files tend not to compress as well if at all.
We're adding a new weekly feature to our weekly tech radio show called the php diary and help forum recap which will review the week of diary lessons here and provide a bit more insight than what was provided as well as the occasional glimpse of what's coming in the future to our sites. Of special note
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