[thelist] PHP include parsing behaviour
Andrew Forsberg
andrew at thepander.co.nz
Tue May 8 16:50:31 CDT 2001
Hi All
Does anyone know whether PHP parses all the routines in an entire
included file every time it loads it? Or does it just parse the
signature of all the functions in the routine, then parse the routine
when it's called?
That is, say I have (and I do), in one of my utility include files
something like this:
function whatever_blah_blah($blah, $foo, $bar)
{
.....
}
function another_function($evolt, $members, $use, $frontpage)
{
.......
}
function etc_etc($whatever)
{
.....
}
and so on.
If some pages only use some of the utility functions in this include
file, or even just one or two (and there are over twenty functions in
the include I'm concerned about), am I putting unnecessary load on
the server?
I'd like to avoid breaking up the functions because they're all
related, and the less file access the better, right?
Sorry if this is a dim question.
Andrew
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