Zend Framework 2: performance optimization

Nowadays the performance of a website is very very important for everything, user experience, Google and so on.

I have found nice PDF from one PHP conference in 2014 by Gary Hockin, this guy is Zend Framework contributor and made these awesome instructions how to optimize our Zend Framework 2 and how to use best practices.

This is the file Maximising Performance in Zend Framework 2

Some additions from me:

• Siege – how to measure your performance.
  • In addition, you can read this nice article about Web App Performance Testing with Siege
• Xdebug
  • Again nice article for it Getting to Know and Love Xdebug
• View template map & Classmaps
  • For this, I have made simple deploy.sh bash script to do several things, one of them is to generate the template map

    #!/usr/bin/env bash
    
    # Defaults
    projectRootDir=$(pwd)
    GREEN='\033[0;32m'
    NOCOLOR='\033[0m'
    
    # Go to each module folder and execute template_map and classmap generators
    for i in $(ls -d module/*/); do
     # Exclude our base module
     if [ $i == "module/Base/" ]; then
     continue
     fi
    
     # Go to module directory
     cd ${i%%/};
     # Generate the template map and class map running PHP scripts
     printf ${GREEN}
     php ../../vendor/zendframework/zendframework/bin/classmap_generator.php -w
     php ../../vendor/zendframework/zendframework/bin/templatemap_generator.php -w
     echo "---"
     printf ${NOCOLOR}
     # Back to Root dir
     cd $projectRootDir;
    done
    
    # Do your other stuff, run migrations, clear cache, composer update etc.

That’s it, if you have any comments, your own ideas for optimizations or anything else, please write in the comments.