[SOLVED] Which is more efficient...

[spidermann]

Hi guys. I'm just curious as to which of these techniques would be more efficient. They both work properly, so this is more of a question of how you guys prefer to handle this type of thing.

 

First, an if statement:

if($paged == 0 || $paged == "") { $paged = 1; }

 

Or a ternary operator:

$paged = ( get_query_var( 'paged' ) ? get_query_var( 'paged' ) : 1 );

 

The first is less code, so I'm leaning that way, but I'll ultimately go with whatever is more efficient for the server.

 

Thanks for any advice you may have.

 

[Alex]

I'd do:

 

$paged = (empty($paged) || $paged == 0) ? 1 : $paged;

 

Ultimately your normal if statement would be the fastest, but that shouldn't matter because even ran through 1,000,000 times the difference in negligible (around 0.01 - 0.1 second(s)). The most important thing in cases like this is that it's easiest to read.

[spidermann]

Great, thanks very much.

 

By the way, is there a tool needed to check the execution time like you just did there? Or is there a built-in way to see that info?

[Alex]

Just use microtime() For this specific case I did this:

 

<?php
$start = microtime(true);
for($i = 0;$i < 1000000;$i++)
if($paged == 0 || $paged == "") { $paged = 1; }
echo (microtime(true) - $start);

[spidermann]

Sweet. Thanks!

[Alex]

No problem, just remember to press the "Topic Solved" button at the bottom left of the topic, and in the future.