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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

Summary


In this chapter, we covered MySQL and the Percona Server. Also, we discussed in detail query caching and other MySQL configuration options for performance in detail. We mentioned different storage engines, such as MyISAM, InnoDB, and Percona XtraDB. We also configured Percona XtraDB Cluster on three nodes. We discussed different monitoring tools, such as PhpMyAdmin monitoring tools, MySQL workbench performance monitoring, and Percona Toolkit. We also discussed Redis and Memcached caching for PHP and MySQL.

In the next chapter, we will discuss benchmarking and different tools. We will use XDebug, Apache JMeter, ApacheBench, and Siege to benchmark different open source systems, such as WordPress, Magento, Drupal, and different versions of PHP, and compare their performance with PHP 7.