Namespaced functions in PHP
? When calling a function, #PHP will first look for one in the current namespace before calling the global one. pic.twitter.com/qYh6o9eypZ
— Freek Van der Herten (@freekmurze) October 17, 2019
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Posts tagged with namespaces
Replacing a built-in PHP function
Rob Allen performs a cool test.
Recently I needed to test part of Slim that uses the built-in PHP functions header() and headers_sent(). To do this, I took advantage of PHP’s namespace resolution rules where it will find a function within the same namespace first before finding one with the same name in the global namespace.
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Optimizing PHP performance by using fully-qualified function calls
A fully qualified function name is a little bit faster than a non-qualified one. Toon Verwerft explains it all in his lastest blogpost.
Today, a little conversation on Twitter escalated rather quickly. Apparently PHP runs function calls differently depending on namespaced or non namespaced context. When calling functions in a namespaced context, additional actions are triggered in PHP which result in slower execution. In this article, I'll explain what happens and how you can speed up your application.
http://veewee.github.io/blog/optimizing-php-performance-by-fq-function-calls/
