Smarty templates are a very useful tool and I'm addicted to Smarty for a couple of years now. All projects I did use Smarty templates. Now it's 2009 and PHP 5.2 is stable and has a good performance. Therefore I decided to use any of PHP 5's features when they come along my way.

Recently, Iterators came to close and I had to implement one. It's usefull for proxying and also for dynamically presenting views of lists. Therefore my implementation looks like:

class Foo {
  var $childs;
 

PHP might be the most often used Internet programming language. One reason might be it's so simple and docile even a beginner without much experience can use it.

When a website becomes older and mature, and starts to attract more people a day, many webmasters face a new competition: keep the scripts running, performing good enough to be usable to their visitors. This is the time where one has to think about performance-tuning PHP. One way to achieve better performance is, to plug in better hardware. Another way (the one we choose for this article) is to fine-tune the software side at PHP level.