[thelist] Use PHP for content?

djinn at darkdesigns.org djinn at darkdesigns.org
Thu Nov 21 16:11:19 CST 2002


Thank you for the comments! I really appreciate it.

Jean Peterson
 -------- Original Message --------
   Subject: RE: [thelist] Use PHP for content?
   From: Rob Whitener <rwhitener at DesignOptions.com>
   Date: Thu, November 21, 2002 2:50 pm
   To: "'thelist at lists.evolt.org'" <thelist at lists.evolt.org>

   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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