Question

I’ve developed a PHP Application Development Platform that I want to use for all the projects I’m going to be working on.

However, rather than installing the framework on all the multiple projects, I want to house it in a CDN (a la Rackspace Cloud Files) and then include the parts I need when I need it.

include("<path_to_cdn>/myfile.php");

I see this a lot with Javascript (e.g. JQuery), however I’m unsure if it’s the right approach for PHP.

Kindly advise.

Thanks.

Answer 1

No; the performance of remote include() is very poor. (Consider that PHP must fetch and reparse the content on every request — PHP opcode caches only work for local includes.) Also keep in mind that newer versions of PHP disable allow_url_include by default for security reasons.