PHP Exceptions in short Back in 2004, PHP 5 came out with a new model object. This latter allows PHP users to make use of a well known OO paradigm : Exceptions. The Exceptions model has then not been really reworked. PHP 5.3 introduced stacked Exceptions, which is a very

PHP : an interpreted language PHP is often defined as a "scripting language" or an "interpreted language". What's that ? Well, it is a language that won't turn its instructions (its syntax) directly into native machine language, but into an intermediate form, that obviously won't be directly run by the CPU (as

Introducting the facts This blog post is a technical explanation of a PHP optimization found with Blackfire profiler [https://blackfire.io/] into a PHP script. The related post is located here : http://blog.blackfire.io/owncloud.html Basically, it concludes with : if (strlen($name) > 49) { ... } Beeing about 20% slower than