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PHP

Solr, Sphinx, Lucene, PHP, API, MySQL
Sphinx and Lucene search engines, first impressions
02.15.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

MySQL full text search is the easiest way to provide full text functionality on your site. It is easy to implement and easy to use. You just have to specify MySQL FULLTEXT index, and after that you search the tables with appropriate SQL queries.
However, there are some disadvantages. On a large databases full text search […]
Smarty, PHP
Using Smarty PHP template engine
01.24.08 | Permalink | Comment?

I believe that everyone have started to use PHP by adding some dynamic content to static HTML pages. Usually you would just add <?php ?> inside your HTML code. But over the time, if you add more and more PHP code, database support, etc. your scripts might become really messy, which is not good. Also, […]
PHP, eAccelerator
eAccelerator
01.15.08 | Permalink | Comment?

Problem with script languages is that the scripts have to be parsed and compiled each time when the script is executed. Each time when you visit some PHP page, your server must parse and compile the script before executing. Can you imagine how much CPU time would be saved if those scripts are parsed and […]