Whats faster? simplexml_load_string or simplexml_load_file?

I was wondering this because at the moment using simplexml_load_file
makes my script go at about 2 seconds per page load, in a loop. Then I
created a cache system so it doesn't keep loading the xml file, but I'm
wondering if theres a faster way to load xml QUICKER, is it possible
with "file_get_contents" and "simplexml_load_string" ?

It could be slow if the XML file is very large or if it's accessed
remotely instead of locally, or if the server has many users...

Eliminating a local file read is not likely to give you any noticeable
speedup...

On Mar 8, 10:18 pm, php4f...@gmail.com (Lamonte) wrote:
> I was wondering this because at the moment using simplexml_load_file
> makes my script go at about 2 seconds per page load, in a loop. Then I
> created a cache system so it doesn't keep loading the xml file, but I'm
> wondering if theres a faster way to load xml QUICKER, is it possible
> with "file_get_contents" and "simplexml_load_string" ?

On Sat, Mar 8, 2008 at 11:18 PM, Lamonte <php4food@gmail.com> wrote:
> I was wondering this because at the moment using simplexml_load_file
> makes my script go at about 2 seconds per page load, in a loop. Then I
> created a cache system so it doesn't keep loading the xml file, but I'm
> wondering if theres a faster way to load xml QUICKER, is it possible
> with "file_get_contents" and "simplexml_load_string" ?

Yes, and you may notice performance enhancements because you're
now going to parse the XML data line-by-line as opposed to parsing the
entire file at once.

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Daniel Brown <parasane <at> gmail.com> writes:

> snipped

It worked like a charm, thanks. Made it a bit faster.