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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

Siege


Siege is another command-line open source tool to test load and performance. Siege is an HTTP/FTP load tester and benchmarking utility. It is designed for developers and administrators to measure the performance of their applications under load. It can send a configurable number of simultaneous requests to a server and those requests that place the server under a siege.

Its installation is simple and easy. For Linux and Mac OS X, first download Siege by issuing the following command in the terminal:

wget http://download.joedog.org/siege/siege-3.1.4.tar.gz

It will download the Siege TAR compressed file. Now, uncompress it by issuing the following command:

tar –xvf siege-3.1.4.tar.gz

Now, all the files will be in the siege-3.1.4 folder. Build and install it by issuing the following commands one by one in the terminal:

cd siege-3.1.4
./configure
make
make install

Now, Siege is installed. To confirm this, issue the following command to check the Siege version:

siege –V

If it displays the...