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by Nunyah
Mon Jul 17, 2006 10:45 am
Forum: PHP - Theory and Design
Topic: Speed issues with a central xml file storing site settings
Replies: 11
Views: 2259

Ah, I get it now.. That's a pretty nice feature. Thanks for explaining this to me. I doub I'll see any noteworthy effect using this as of now but I think it's a really nice habit to have - One day I really might gonna need it or expand upon it and it really dosn't add much more of a hassle or comple...
by Nunyah
Mon Jul 17, 2006 8:38 am
Forum: PHP - Theory and Design
Topic: Speed issues with a central xml file storing site settings
Replies: 11
Views: 2259

CPU time and memory resources .. a PHP based config file would take practically no time to parse .. 0.001 seconds maybe. An XML file would take maybe 0.02 seconds. 20 times slower. On a site with 5 concurrent users that's nothing to worry about .. but on a site with 5000 concurrent users it's a muc...
by Nunyah
Sun Jul 16, 2006 5:33 pm
Forum: PHP - Theory and Design
Topic: Speed issues with a central xml file storing site settings
Replies: 11
Views: 2259

No, they really aren't. Parsing an XML file takes a lot of resources and a lot of time. Storing config info in a PHP file as constants is a lot faster. If you want it to be easy to edit, store as XML. If you want it to be fast, store as PHP. A lot of time and resources in what measure? The page wou...
by Nunyah
Sun Jul 16, 2006 9:37 am
Forum: PHP - Theory and Design
Topic: Speed issues with a central xml file storing site settings
Replies: 11
Views: 2259

Thank you for clear answers, timvw. My concerns for performance hits using xml at my level are now void. :)
by Nunyah
Sun Jul 16, 2006 8:36 am
Forum: PHP - Theory and Design
Topic: Speed issues with a central xml file storing site settings
Replies: 11
Views: 2259

Speed issues with a central xml file storing site settings

Hey all I'm currently working on a CMS project and I've begun considering to have a config.xml file to store various settings for every page as well as global settings. A very simplified example: <webconfig> <global> <database> <name>MyDatabaseName</name> <user>root</user> <password>Password1</passw...
by Nunyah
Sun Jul 02, 2006 8:06 am
Forum: PHP - Code
Topic: Add values to nodes in an XML file
Replies: 3
Views: 237

Yes, it does.
Seeing the documentation, could i search up the node by doing a get_elements_by_tagname() and from there use set_attribute_node?
I cannot really find any examples in how to rewrite a new value to a node in an xml file. You'd think this was a pretty common operation? ..
by Nunyah
Sat Jul 01, 2006 7:18 pm
Forum: PHP - Code
Topic: Add values to nodes in an XML file
Replies: 3
Views: 237

Add values to nodes in an XML file

Hey guys, trying to learn how to use XML with php and while there's lots of information in how to parse and (re)write a xml file, I cannot find information that explains how to search up a child node, adding a new value to it. Small example: <webconfig> <newsperpage>10</newsperpage> </webconfig> I g...