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Learning PHP 7 High Performance

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Learning PHP 7 High Performance

Overview of this book

PHP is a great language for building web applications. It is essentially a server-side scripting language that is also used for general-purpose programming. PHP 7 is the latest version, providing major backward-compatibility breaks and focusing on high performance and speed. This fast-paced introduction to PHP 7 will improve your productivity and coding skills. The concepts covered will allow you, as a PHP programmer, to improve the performance standards of your applications. We will introduce you to the new features in PHP 7 and then will run through the concepts of object-oriented programming (OOP) in PHP 7. Next, we will shed some light on how to improve your PHP 7 applications' performance and database performance. Through this book, you will be able to improve the performance of your programs using the various benchmarking tools discussed. At the end, the book discusses some best practices in PHP programming to help you improve the quality of your code.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Learning PHP 7 High Performance
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Full page caching


In full page caching, the complete page of the website is stored in a cache, and for the next requests, this cached page is served. Full page cache is more effective if your website content does not change too often; for example, on a blog with simple posts, new posts are added on a weekly basis. In this case, the cache can be cleared after new posts are added.

What if you have a website that has pages with dynamic parts, such as an e-commerce website? In this case, a complete page caching will create problems because the page is always different for each request; as a user is logged in, he/she may add products to the shopping cart and so on. In this case, using full page caching may not be that easy.

Most popular platforms provide either built-in support for full page cache or through plugins and modules. In this case, the plugin or module takes care of the dynamic blocks of the page for each request.