[thelist] php/mysql speed query

[kris burford [midtempo]]

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hi,

i've been building a dynamic site with php/mysql and have some questions
about how to construct things to get the quickest page response times.

from a previous thread i've gathered that writing the page in pure php will
be quicker than intermingling php with html.

but is it better to have a large page of php code littered with
conditional/switch statements (where the output is dependent on which
section of the site a visitor is in or which options they have made within
a page) or to split the code into multiple smaller documents. for example,
i've an include for the navigation which is currently 16k of php code. i
could easily reduce this so that each section of the site calls a separate,
smaller, file (at the expense of having one single file to manage).

i'm also intending to look at making it cache-friendly, so if anyone has
any advice as to this as well, i'd be most grateful.

the site i'm building already has a large audience and i simple want to
ensure that i get it right...

tia

kris 
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