PHP Site Optimization

Caching

There is nothing worse than doing the same slows tasks over and over again and again.  There are different places Caching can be achieved to give optimal results.  Using the write tools pages can be there in not time

MYSQL Cache

MySql comes with its own built in cache.  The cache will ensure that duplicated select queries will be cached saving valuable time.  However the cache will be flushed if the table data is changed. This is still useful for many websites (rather than applications) as the amount of selects done can be much larger than the number of inserts.

You can enable MySql caching by entering the following configs into your my.ini/my.cnf

query_cache_size=268435456
query_cache_type=1
query_cache_limit=1048576

Object Cache

The next step is to stop wasting all that time on queries and creating your objects.  Once you have created your object it is a good idea to serialize the object and store it into a NOSQL cache format.  They are set using Key, Variable pairs so are incredibly fast to set and retrieve.

Page Cache

Once you have created the output it is best once again to put this into a cache using the same method.