After my initial disbelief about the amount of WordPress installations still on the slow and vulnerable PHP 5.2.17 (or older), I decided to warn users of my plugin with an non-dismissable warning on the plugin’s settings-page (and only there, so it’s not a default WordPress admin notice) cluttering the entire backend): This is going in […]
For Autoptimize 2.0.1 I declared a pretty complex regex to extract font-face’s from CSS using the nowdoc-syntax which is supported from PHP 5.3 onwards. Taking into account that the first PHP 5.2 release was over 9 years ago and support ended with the release of 5.2.17, over 5 years ago I assumed using a nowdoc […]
If you see .php,jquery added to the JS optimization exclusion list and wonder why that is the case; these are added by WP Spamshield to ensure optimal functioning of the that plugin and when you remove them they will be re-added automatically by WP Spamshield. I am currently exchanging information with Scott (WP Spamshield’s developer) […]
As I wrote earlier an Autoptimize user proposed to switch from regular expression based script & style extraction to using native PHP DOM functions (optionally with xpath). I created a small test-script to compare performance and the DOM methods are on average 500% slower than the preg_match based solution. Here are some details; There are […]
Although I had used Simple HTML DOM parser for WP DoNotTrack, I’ve been looking into native PHP HTML DOM parsing as a possible replacement for regular expressions for Autoptimize as proposed by Arturo. I won’t go into the performance comparison results just yet, but here’s some of the things I learned while experimenting with DOMDocument […]
Quercus really is great stuff; it allows nitwits like me to develop crappy PHP-applications and to deploy them on Google’s App Engine. But when you combine the limitations of Quercus’ PHP implementation with those of GAE, you’re going to have to code around some problems you wouldn’t be facing when developing a “normal” PHP webapp. […]
There isn’t a whole lot of documentation about running PHP on Google App Engine to be found, but these links may be helpful (in a “note to self: I should try this when I find the time” kind of way): “Java/PHP integration” in the Quercus documentation “Google App Engine Java overview” for the GAE API […]