PHP tokens and opcodes : 3 useful extensions for understanding the working of Zend Engine

November 15, 2009   -   PHP   -   10 comments

“PHP tokens and opcodes” – When a PHP script is executed it goes through a number of processes, before the final result is displayed. These processes are namely: Lexing, Parsing, Compiling and Executing. In this blog post, I will walk you through all these processes with a sample example. In the end I will list [...]

MySQL Query Cache, WP-Cache, APC, Memcache – What to choose

January 14, 2009   -   PHP, Scalability   -   44 comments

Hello Cache Freaks, Ever since I changed my job (from Business Intelligence to Web development) and started working with my present employer, I have had a chance to work on a lot of scalable projects. From making my project to scale from 20 Million PV’s to 100 Million PV’s to development of an internal tool, [...]

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