Does your website load as quickly as you — and your users — would like? If not, here’s a detailed set of proven guidelines aimed at improving the speed of your site.

The benefits of speed optimized pages:

1. Your visitors will be happier, and will feel much more engaged on a snappy site than a slow one. User interface responsiveness is a very large contributing factor to how users trust your content and company. Users trust and enjoy fast sites, and are quickly frustrated by slow sites.
2. The faster that you can serve content to your visitors, the faster they’ll be off your servers, leaving them free to serve the next visitor. That means that you can handle greater traffic loads, with less hardware.
3. Smaller overall downloads means lower bandwidth bills at the end of the month.

PHP is great for writing quick dynamic stuff for your website. Just a couple of lines of code can be written in 2 mins to insert or retrieve data from db. But with ease there is also some pain… the downside is that each request for a dynamic page can trigger multiple db queries, processing of output, and finally formatting to display on browser. This process can eventually be slow on larger sites or slower servers.

In this article, we’ve put together the list of caching plugins and techniques which can be used to improve your website performance.

Template engines are designed to allow the separation of business logic from the presentation layer, which means allowing MVC architecture to the developers. With the aid of template engines, we are able to develop websites with different looks but the same logic or the core code. Template engines are lately known as not good ideas because recent platforms already have embedded template engines to separate views from logic, generate code etc…

Here is a compilation of 38 Coolest Template Engines for PHP you can take into reference. Full list after jump.

1. Object HTML

A set of classes that will allow you to build HTML documents completely w/ objects in PHP. This is only the most basic layer but it is easy to build onto.

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2. OO HTML Table Generation

Automatic generation of HTML for table.
- Colspan, rowspan, table style, column style, cell style, and data style may all be defined.
- OO interface
- Simple but effective

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Today we want to show off our favorite 30 programmers who have inspired and influenced so many people to become better programmers. Let us know who has inspired you to start and become a better programmer!

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Did you know that unix manual pages for PHP functions and methods existed?

For a while I had vim configured to run reflection when I hit “K“, but after the PHP documentation team released unix manual pages for PHP I now get the manual page in all its glory; function description, parameter descriptions, return values, examples, notes, see also and everything you are used to see from the online manual.
Its awesome.

SQL Injection
Quick solutions:

• Use appropriate field types
• use a security class for user input import
• Be careful when you use a string out of the database for comparison