PHP-Nuke: Management and Programming

Chapter 25. Optimizing PHP-Nuke

Table of Contents

25.1. Search engines and dynamic URLs

25.2. mod_rewrite

25.2.1. API phases
25.2.2. Ruleset processing
25.2.3. Quoting special characters
25.2.4. Regex backreference availability

25.3. Regular expressions

25.4. The .htaccess file

25.5. How to make PHP-Nuke search engine friendly

25.6. How to make PHP-Nuke hot link stealth

25.7. How to make a dynamic CSS

25.8. How to proceed when MySQL is slow

Once your PHP-Nuke site is up and running, you can relax and watch it grow. But as it grows, your expectations will grow too: better visibility with the search engines, better protection of your content, better response times from the database - in short, the idea of optimization will start occupying your thoughts more and more. In this chapter we cover some advanced optimization topics:

Search engines and dynamic URLs (Section 25.1),
mod_rewrite (Section 25.2),
Regular expressions (Section 25.3),
The .htaccess file (Section 25.4),
How to make PHP-Nuke search engine friendly (Section 25.5),
How to make PHP-Nuke hot link stealth (Section 25.6),
How to make a dynamic CSS (Section 25.7),
How to proceed when MySQL is slow (Section 25.8).