include statement...

[dannyluked]

Hi,

I have recently been using the include statement to include my side, nav and header. When I use it my site seems to slow down. I also have more proof of this as I have installed Wamp (a virtual server) to test my PHP and when including just a simple header the page slows down noticeably.

 

I was just wondering if there is a way to speed it up or an alternate method to 'include' parts of my pages (eg header)?

 

Thanks 

[dgoosens]

this is probably because one of the scripts you are including needs a lot of resources...

maybe you have an error in your scripts or an endless loop...

 

you might want to post your scripts here so that we can check this...

[dannyluked]

Thanks for the reply,

Im not sure what an endless look is and how would you stop an endless loop?

 

PS. I made a quick header which just had a word in it, that still slowed the site down.

[dgoosens]

and endless loop is a loop that never ends - lol

 

for instance

while(i<1)
{
   echo "this is an endless loop";
   $i = 0;
}

(this is a very very basic one)

[dannyluked]

Ahhh,

How do you stop an endless loop (use you example)

[PFMaBiSmAd]

Post an example of your include statement.

 

Best guess is that you are using a URL instead of a file system path and your server is making a HTTP request back to itself for every include statement.

[dannyluked]

<?php include "left.php" ?>

 

PS. What is quicker? loading left.html or left.php

[premiso]

The difference in loading you probably will not notice a difference (it is such a small difference), but the .html should load faster due to the simple fact it does not have to run any code it just has to display the html. This is all given that you do not have your server setup to parse .html as .php.