PHP Accelerator: Difference between revisions

New page: A PHP Acelerator is a tool that will enhance the performance of web applications written for the PHP scripting language. The free [http://php.net/apc Alternative PH...
 
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If you run your own LAMP server with PHP applications, then please install it.   
If you run your own LAMP server with PHP applications, then please install it.   


== Installation ==
Assuming you already have Apache2 and PHP5 (with dev extensions so PECL can run phpize), it's as easy as
Assuming you already have Apache2 and PHP5 (with dev extensions so PECL can run phpize), it's as easy as
<source lang="bash">
<source lang="bash">
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sudo ln -s /usr/share/php/apc.php
sudo ln -s /usr/share/php/apc.php
</source>
</source>
== Notes ==
APC, aside from speeding up your website, also provides a storage mechanism outside the traditional cookie/session mechanism.  So, you could set an application variable or constant and (assuming that the cache is not cleared, etc.) retrieve that value from another context.