[easy] Does spacing your code out affect load times?

Discussion in 'PHP' started by Dirty-Rockstar, Jul 16, 2008.

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  1. #1
    Simple question, I like to space my code out a bit. Queries, inserts, functions. And comment them to keep it organized. so 2000 lines becomes 3000 because of this. Does that cause lag? haha also this makes things easier for me too:

    
$sql="SELECT

table.field,
table.field,
table.field,
table.field,
table.field,
table.field,
table.field,
table.field,


table2.field,
table2.field,
table2.field,
table2.field,
table2.field,


FROM 

table,
table2,

WHERE 

table.field,='$var' 

AND

table2.field, ='$var2' 

ORDER BY

table.field DESC";

$query=mysql_query($sql) or die(mysql_error());
$result=mysql_fetch_array($query);
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    Insead of having it straight across....is that ok and wont cause lag?
    (newbie here)

    <3 thanks = )
     
    Dirty-Rockstar, Jul 16, 2008 IP
  2. CygnetGames

    CygnetGames Peon

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    No, spacing out your PHP code won't cause any problems at all.
    If you did the same thing with HTML code, that would increase the size of the file sent to the client, and so would increase the load time of your page, but doing it in PHP won't affect anything.

    It's a good practice to space out your code, as it makes it easier to read.
    If you work on projects with other people who have to read your code, they would thank you for spacing it out!
     
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  3. Dirty-Rockstar

    Dirty-Rockstar Guest

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    thanks, I didnt know that about html tho. my html is dirty haha :p. another question came to mind, is there that much of a difference in load time ending php whenever possible and putting html on the page you make, then just printing it or using echo? (i am a print booster) currently i just use print combined with my php code with html. much difference? maybe something to do with caching

    thankies

    <3
     
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  4. jestep

    jestep Prominent Member

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    Technically spacing does matter a little. PHP must parse the entire document, so the longer it is (in bytes) the longer it takes to parse. Blank spaces are mostly negligible though, so I wouldn't be worried about them as long as they are there for a purpose.

    The fastest way to handle html is to remove it from print and echo statements:

    
<?php
some php code {
?>
<html here />
<?php 
}
?>
    PHP:
    If you need to echo / print strings, the fastest possible way is to 'echo' strings using commas . Also single ' are faster than ".

    
//fastest
echo '<something>' , '<something else>' , trim($some_other_string);
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  5. sastro

    sastro Well-Known Member

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    Also your php will be faster when you encode it with zend guard
     
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