Make Good Use of Predefined Functions [TotD]

Posted by hts | January 10, 2008 .

Some 1 and a half year ago, when I was a beginner with PHP (not that now I am a professional or something, but still - I’ve improved a lot :) ), I know only few of the useful predefined functions available in php and I used to build my own snippets/functions to accomplish what I wanted to do.

The point here is that, to speed up development time, make good use of built-in functions in PHP. Beside reducing time spent to write new functions, I think it also reduces compiling time of a script, since the functions are “encapsulated” in the core of PHP engine and are easier processed (note that this is only my assumption and I have not benchmarked anything related to this - but this seems to be logical, doesn’t it?).

A good resource to start with is these PHP Cheat Sheets. Then, you might dig deeper into these function references.

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