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• Namespace PHP functions August 10, 2015

  With the release of PHP 5.3 namespaces became a reality in PHP and they’ve made so much possible including better autoloading. The majority of the time you’ll be used to seeing them at the top of each class file. They can also be used to namespace functions however. A standard PHP namespace declaration would look similar to the following at the top of a class file. namespace Treffynnon\Html; class Tag { // . Read more ⇒

• Simultaneously benchmark many URLs with ApacheBench and GNU parallel June 25, 2015

  Once in a while you come across situations where someone wants to know what a server can do or how many requests it can handle under a realistic load scenario. It could simply be that you want to hit a large selection of sites or even that you want to simultaneously hit a number of different pages on the same site. In my case I am testing the performance of a Drupal multisite installation where one core set of code is shared by many sites on different URLs. Read more ⇒