The WordPress team has taken up the issue of performance optimization pretty seriously, and I look forward to the fruits of their efforts, but I’m also casting a critical eye on my own code. Thanks to caching and a hugely optimized query architecture, Scriblio is now performing better than ever, and I’m now looking at [...]

Posted January 23, 2008 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Technology. Tags: fixed, mysql, optimization, query, query optimization, wordpress. Be the first one.

I didn’t hear big announcement of it, but deep in the docs (? PHP 5.1.0) you’ll find a note about additional Libxml parameters. In there you’ll learn about “LIBXML_NOCDATA,” and it works like this:
simplexml_load_string($xmlraw, ’SimpleXMLElement’, LIBXML_NOCDATA);
Without that option (and with all previous versions of PHP/SimpleXML), SimpleXML just ignores any < ![CDATA[...]]> ‘escaped’ content, such as you’ll find [...]

Posted April 12, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Technology. Tags: cdata, cdata in php, fixed, parsing rss, php, php5, rss, simplexml, xml. 6 Comments.