[thelist] Use PHP for content?

Rob Whitener rwhitener at DesignOptions.com
Thu Nov 21 15:49:00 CST 2002


Its hard to tell why the page loads so slow.  There don't seem to be any
huge image files to load, there isn't any flash or anything.  PHP itself
wouldn't slow the page down, but how it is used might.  Looking at the PHP
source (whoever built this didn't do very good job of securing it) in the
config.camst.inc file, I see $test="<img src='images/dragon.gif'>";  I
assume this $test variable is used in one of the three framesets to load an
image.  Since I don't see any images of dragons anywhere on the page, or any
images for that matter, the server is probably unable to find it.  That
could be why the page is loading so slow.  Try looking for the image
manually on the server to see if it exists and is in the proper place.
Also, if you want images to load a little faster, you may use JavaScript on
the client side to preload them.  Here is link:
http://www.js-examples.com/example/?ex=515&mode=1&COLOR_OFF=YES  If you
can't discern how to preload images from the code, I think I found alot of
examples on the web by going to google and searching with "javascript +
images + preload"

Enjoy
-----Original Message-----
From: djinn at darkdesigns.org [mailto:djinn at darkdesigns.org]
Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2002 4:28 PM
To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
Subject: [thelist] Use PHP for content?


Thank you for your descriptions and websites. Now that I have read the "What
is PHP" and "What is it good for?" as well as your responses, I have a
specific question. A website that I am only peripherally responsible for
seems to be calling all of it's text using PHP (could be wrong)
http://www.camst.net/. The text isn't contextual or contantly changing or
anything else that I could see using script for. The page also takes *ages*
to load (when I first loaded it I thought there was going to be one heck of
an image file or something).

First, is it common/good practice to use PHP this way?

Second, could this use of PHP be why the page takes so long to load?

Thanks.
Jean Peterson



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