Compression of Web content (making it more "enjoyable" for your customers to use)
After the above two methods, I believe that the performance of your PHP application has been greatly improved. Now it is time to look at it from another aspect Considered: Download speed. If your application is only running within the company, and all customers use 100Mb/s Ethernet to connect to the server, this may not be a problem, but if some of your customers use slow modem connections, you need to consider Use content compression method. According to IETF specifications, most browsers support gzip content compression. This means that you can use gzip to compress the web content before sending it to the client's browser. The browser will automatically decompress the data when receiving it and allow the user to see the original page. Likewise, there are several different ways to compress the content of a web page.
mod_gzip is an Apache module provided free of charge by Remote Communications (http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/www.remotecommunications.com), which can compress static web pages. It works just fine, you just need to compile it with apache (or use it as a DSO). People from Remotecommunications said it can also compress dynamic content, including mod_php, mod_perl, etc. But I tried it, and it doesn't seem to work. I read on the mod_gzip mailing list that this bug will be fixed in the next version (I think it will be version 1.3.14.6f). But you can still use it for static content compression.
But we also want to compress dynamic content, so we have to find another way. One way is to use class.gzip encode.php (http://leknor.com/code/). Just call this PHP class at the beginning and end of your PHP script to compress the content of your page. If your entire site requires such compression, you can call these functions in auto_prepend and auto_append in your php.ini file. It works pretty well, but on heavily loaded sites it obviously comes with a bit of overhead. To learn more about how it works, take a look at its class code (you'll need to at least compile PHP with zlib support). The author's instructions inside are also very detailed, so you can get everything you need to know.
Recently, I also saw an article about PHP output buffering. What it says is that PHP4.0.4 has introduced a new output buffer processing method-ob_gzhandler. Its function is the same as the class introduced above, but the difference is that you only need to use the following syntax in your php.ini. :
output_handler = ob_gzhandler ;
This will activate PHP's output buffering feature and compress everything it sends. For some special reasons, if you don't want to set it here and only change the default setting where needed (no compression), just modify the .htaccess file in the PHP source code directory that needs to be compressed. The syntax used is as follows:
php_value output_handler ob_gzhandler
...or call it directly in your PHP code, in the following way:
ob_start("ob_gzhandler" );
This method of output buffering is very good and does not bring additional system overhead to the server. I highly recommend you use this method. Its change can be illustrated by the following example. If the customer is using a 28.8K modem, after this process, he will think that he has suddenly switched to an ISDN access. One thing to note is that Netscape Communicator does not support image compression, so it will not be displayed. Therefore, unless all of your customers use Internet Explorer, you must disable compression of jpeg and gif images. There should be no problem with the compression of other files, but I suggest you test it, especially if the browser uses uncommon plug-ins or is a browser that is rarely used.
Other useful stuff...
Zend Technologies’ online store was launched on January 24 this year and sells some interesting PHP-related products. Including the aforementioned Zend Cache, Zend Encoder (simply put, it is a compiler for PHP code that can generate compiled classes so that you can sell to customers without worrying about leaking source code. In the web server that needs to run these classes (will use Zend Encoder Runtime to decode), Zend Ide (an integrated development environment for PHP with many powerful features), and support services for PHP developers.
Conclusion
Using the techniques mentioned in this article, you will be able to greatly improve the performance of your site, but please note the following points:
1. The bottleneck may not be there For PHP, you need to examine every object in the application (such as a database)
2. The performance of a web server is limited, so don’t think that poor performance is due to PHP, it may also be due to access The volume is large, your server needs to be upgraded, or consider using a load balancing system (it will cost a lot of money)
3. Don’t think that content compression is not important. In a 100Mb/s LAN, your PHP applications may perform well, but users with slow modems must be considered.
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