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Me: Is that really important that the tables are MyISAM? It's 2018, you know.. There are dozens of queries in queue waiting for table-level locks.
R**: Are they MyISAM? Really?
Me: Yes.. Any objection against converting them to InnoDB? With the current state of the website, with all those tons of Gateway Timeouts, it's not going to make it worse if I do it right now..
Me: Nah, it didn't help a lot.. But, looking at the SHOW PROCESSLIST output, I see something weird. What, do you think, this query does? SELECT LAST_INSERT_ID() FROM images?
R**: ehh... Gets you the last AUTO_INCREMENT id from images table?
Me: Let's play another good news bad news joke.. Good news: you're right, it gets you the last AUTO_INCREMENT id. Bad news: it's not for table, it's for the session. Worse news: this query gets you the last AUTO_INCREMENT id and does it exactly as many times as there are rows in the images table. how many are there?
R**: about 8mln. #@%&! It's sending 8mln rows on every image upload, through the network!
Me: Bingo! 8mln rows, with one and the same integer value in all of them.
R**: Ouch... Aaaand... Before today, it was not an issue. Because the database was on the same server as the application..
Me: Exactly, it used the loopback interface, and now it's using ehternet, which, apparently, doesn't have a super good bandwidth. We don't have a gigabit channel between servers, do we?
R**: No, it's 100 Mbit
Me: Are you fixing the query, BTW?
R**: yeah, man, deploying it...
n
items are put into m
containers, with n > m
, then at least one container must contain more than one item. Mathematicians can be even more weird then programmers, can't they? And remember, programmers can right something like if (true == false)...
class IntArray {
private $values = [];
public function add(int $value) {
$this->values[] = $value;
}
}
Then, whenever you need an array of integers, you may write something like this:class BatchProcessor
{
private $ids;
public function __construct(IntArray $ids) {
$this->ids = $ids;
}
}
Not bad. You'll need a class per type, though, and that may seem a bit of an overkill for such a simple task. Luckily, same result can be achieved differently, but with the same level of confidence in every value type:class BatchProcessor
{
private $ids;
public function __construct(int ...$ids) {
$this->ids = $ids; }
}
Voila - no need for extra class! This approach uses the PHP 7's type hinting for scalar types, in conjunction with Variable length argument lists available since PHP 5.6. In fact, variable-length argument lists have been around since probably the very first version of the language, but in 5.6 they were revisited and got some nice syntactic sugar in form of "...", so you declare and call them as easy as this:function func(...$args){...}
$args = [1, 2, 3];
func(...$args);
The approach can work with any type-hinting available in PHP, and I hope you find it somewhat useful! Comment, discuss share and ask questions - I'll be around.$ php -i
phpinfo()
PHP Version => 7.2.10-0ubuntu1
System => Linux awesome 4.18.0-10-generic #11-Ubuntu SMP Thu Oct 11 15:13:55 UTC 2018 x86_64
Build Date => Sep 13 2018 13:38:55
Server API => Command Line Interface
Virtual Directory Support => disabled
...
less
command in order to get pagination and search: php -i | less
. Type Q
to exit the less
shell. Some distros might lack less
, in that case you may try php -i | more
, which doesn't give you search but still has pagination.$ php -m
[PHP Modules]
calendar
Core
ctype
date
dom
ds
exif
...
$ php --re ds
Extension [ <persistent> extension #46 ds version 1.2.6 ] {
- Dependencies {
Dependency [ json (Required) ]
Dependency [ spl (Required) ]
}
- Classes [11] {
Interface [ <internal:ds> interface Ds\Hashable ] {
- Constants [0] {
}
- Static properties [0] {
}
...
$ php --rc Ds\Vector
Class [ <internal:ds> <iterateable> final class Ds\Vector implements Ds\Sequence, Traversable, Countable, JsonSerializable, Ds\Collection ] {
- Constants [1] {
Constant [ public integer MIN_CAPACITY ] { 8 }
}
- Static properties [0] {
}
...
$ php --rf fopen
Function [ <internal:standard> function fopen ] {
- Parameters [4] {
Parameter #0 [ <required> $filename ]
Parameter #1 [ <required> $mode ]
Parameter #2 [ <optional> $use_include_path ]
Parameter #3 [ <optional> $context ]
}
}
-a
switch might be what you're looking for:$ php -a
Interactive mode enabled
php > var_dump(join(", ", [1, 2, 3]));
php shell code:1:
string(7) "1, 2, 3"
php >
readline
support (most distros have that anyway).$ php -l test.php
PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected 'array_shift' (T_STRING) in test.php on line 4
Errors parsing test.php
$ cd /my_application/document_root
$ php -S localhost:8000