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[abhilashdas]

Hi Friends
I was wondering whether including the html part of a program as an external file is a good idea. I saw it working neetly in phpbb, but will it takes more time for the compiler to do so? Is it a burden on the compiler?; as far as a heavy traffic site is concerned.

[penagate]

It depends how you do it. As a general rule of thumb raw file system access is quicker than a database query, yet most high traffic database-driven sites will execute several queries per request anyway. The expense is not big.

Also, PHP doesn't have a compiler. It is an interpreted language. That having been said, the interpreted code is cached to a certain extent.

[visualAd]

Hi Friends
I was wondering whether including the html part of a program as an external file is a good idea. I saw it working neetly in phpbb, but will it takes more time for the compiler to do so? Is it a burden on the compiler?; as far as a heavy traffic site is concerned.

Templates are a good idea and while they have a slight impact on performance, their benefits far outweigh any performance issues. You can write your templates in PHP with the help of their alternate syntax, or you can use a templating system such as Smarty.