Why template systems like smarty are useless and sometimes bad

Because there is a learning curve, because most php template classes have their own tags or even their own language like smarty and because they are very slow.

Php mysql client library compilation problem

Solution for "configure: error: wrong mysql library version or lib not found" "/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lmysqlclient_r" php compile error.

PHP simple timer class

This simple class is useful to benchmark different parts of your php code.

ADODB, best php database abstraction class

I have been using it for a while and I really like it, it has great performance and comes with a php extension that speeds up things by 100% percent.

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