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About HTTP Caching

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PHP Anthology, Volume 2: Applications. Chapter 5: Caching:

For example, the content delivered by a dynamic page may change once a day, so there's certainly a benefit to be gained by having the browser cache a page-even if only for twenty four hours.

It's usually possible to live with both problems given a small PHP application, but as the complexity of, and traffic to, your site increases, you may run into difficulties. However, both these issues can be solved, the first with server side caching, the second, by taking control of client side caching from within your application. The exact approach you use to solve the problem will depend on your application, but in this chapter, we'll see how you can solve both using PHP and a number of class libraries from PEAR.

Tags: Web Design

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MLS Stars going abroad

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If you haven't kept up with the unusual flurry of transfer activity in the MLS off-season, this piece summarizes and analyzes the how losing top players to European leagues impacts MLS. If you need a login don't use bigsoccer@bigsoccer.com / bigsoccer.

The reasons for these moves make sense - as in dollars and cents. Just as players can make more money in the NBA and NFL than in leagues overseas, soccer players can sign contracts with European teams that pay them more than the \$1.735 million, which is the MLS salary cap per team.

Tags: Soccer

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