With php becoming a more mature language and frameworks becoming a standard practice, it’s increasingly important to analyze your code and test the performance where possible.
Frameworks and libraries can speed up the development time and make code maintenance simpler, but it’s important you understand how they work.  It’s not just the framework itself but the entire footprint your application leaves when a user visits a specific page.  Ask yourself what’s involved from the database, to the code/framework, and then to the client through http requests.

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In this post, I will discuss 5 tips and tools that the php community has provided to speed up development time and improve code quality. These should help you out if you don’t already know them, but if you do I would like to hear what you use to speed up your development time.

If you have been following the Zend Framework at all, you’ll know that Dojo has been selected as the UI library to be adopted into the Zend Framework. The question is what does this exactly mean?