[Dcphp-dev] DCPHP Sound off

[Stephen Hamilton (AI)]

400k for a web page?  LOL  The difference between a web developer and a
graphic artist.  While  graphic artists don't understand HTML etc... We
can't produce high quality websites without them.  LOL          

Stephen Hamilton, 
Chairman and Chief Software Architect
www.a-information.com
"A professionally designed website can increase sales as much as 73%"  
 

-----Original Message-----
From: dcphp-dev-bounces at calypso.tux.org
[mailto:dcphp-dev-bounces at calypso.tux.org] On Behalf Of Tim Jarrett
Sent: Monday, February 12, 2007 10:49 PM
To: dcphp-dev at calypso.tux.org
Subject: Re: [Dcphp-dev] DCPHP Sound off

Hi!  My name is Tim Jarrett.  I currently work at Johns Hopkins as a web
developer for their part-time graduate engineering division.  I'm a Hopkins
student as well as an employee and am working on a Masters of Science in
Computer Science.  In addition to being a student and Hopkins employee, I
also do a fair amount of freelance work.  I've been working with variations
of the LAMP stack and PHP since 2002 and I still love it (for the most
part).

I recently had a freelance client of mine complain to me that their Intranet
(which I had helped develop) had bogged down and was unbearably slow.  The
client is a major memory manufacturer and the intranet is accessed through a
VPN connection based in Japan - so the lag time can be pretty serious -
almost like using dial up.  Anyways, pages on their Intranet site are mostly
made up of "items" that they manage using a custom built tool.  Over time,
these pages have come to include far more items then they were ever intended
to.  The site is coded in old table-style layout and was done by a graphic
designer that did not understand CSS (it's a nightmare to work with) - so
the HTML is very bloated to boot.  I checked the page size and noticed that
some where more than 400Kb!  So a bit of Googling and I came up with the
following line to add to my .htaccess file:
    php_flag zlib.output_compression On

It worked like a charm.  The yelps of pain have subsided - for now -
hopefully long enough to more fully solve the problem.

Tim Jarrett
tim at tim-jarrett.com


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