Scripting in SKINS : PHP, Perl etc.

[DirectAdmin Support]

Just a note, we now have scripting in the skins. Php, perl or any other interpreter can be used. Should greatly increase the flexibility of skins.

LINK (http://www.directadmin.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&postid=8754#post8754)

John

[Zachary]

DA is supposed to be designed to run *fast* using C. will adding php and perl interpretation capabilities cause it to end up slower?

[ProWebUK]

Originally posted by Zachary
DA is supposed to be designed to run *fast* using C. will adding php and perl interpretation capabilities cause it to end up slower?

It will add the time it would usually take to process

if you add

<?php
echo "test";
?>

would add 0.0000000001seconds to your current loading time* (totally inaccurate but u get my idea!)

basically it depends on the code you use, and what you are doing.

Chris

[Zachary]

i was thinking of replacing html code generated by DA tokens.

like,

$pop = |POPACCOUNTS|;
eregi_replace(
'<input type="submit" ',
'<input type="button" class ="button" ',
$pop
);

if i have like 120 pop accounts on that particular domain, will the slowdown be significant?

[ProWebUK]

Best way to find out would be check the page processing time before and then again after the chnages.

Shouldnt make to much difference at all, but as i said, check it.

Chris

[Zachary]

errrr.... how do i check the load time?

[ProWebUK]

Not sure how it would be done in JS, with php you could try:

add the following to the top of the page:


<?php
$time=explode(' ', microtime());
$timetaken=$time[1]+$time[0];
?>


Then this at the end:


<?php
$time=explode(' ',microtime());
$time=$time[1]+$time[0];
$loadtime=($time-$timetaken);
echo "loading time: $loadtime seconds";
?>


Chris

[loopforever]

Originally posted by Zachary
i was thinking of replacing html code generated by DA tokens.

like,

$pop = |POPACCOUNTS|;
eregi_replace(
'<input type="submit" ',
'<input type="button" class ="button" ',
$pop
);

if i have like 120 pop accounts on that particular domain, will the slowdown be significant?

Something like this would take less than half a second, if that. You'd be surprised how quickly each iteration is processed. But, just a bit of advice, don't use eregi_replace, use str_replace instead. It's faster for what you're intending to do. You should only use ereg_replace/eregi_replace when you're doing complex search-replaces with regular expressions.

[Zachary]

thanks guys, point taken :)