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Optimize your PHP experience

This tiny page not only serves as kind of repository of my own work, in the future I also want to write some articles here. In every programming/scripting language, there are multiple ways to archieve a goal. Looking at various scripts out there reveals big differences in the fields of innovation, "elegance" (aka _style_) and finally performance between multiple authors and projects.

I'll try to write some stuff to carry out my aspects on some things, in the hope to help other people being able to optimize the stuff - even more - to optimize their way they work. Because it's not only the final result that counts, it's also the way one took to archieve it. I'm not saying that I'm an expert in performance enhacing, but I consider myself as a good abstractal thinker. I opinion that "smartness" and a "good thinking ability" is far more important than good mathematical skills in basic stuff like PHP.

Classes

• Sessionara 1.7-r1
  A class that provides a "session based data environment with MySQL" through an entire project, now with optional cookie support.

Scripts

• dirsize 1.0
  A command-line based utility for which generates size usage reports from a given directory. Recursive and consistent.
• All2mp3
  A command-line based wrapper for mplayer and lame which converts all supported media files by mplayer to mp3.