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Here is a simple function that will get the url of the current page.

Over the past month or so I have been toying with the idea of developing a way to cache dynamic PHP pages with out a lot of overhead.  I stumbled across this blog entry: http://papermashup.com/caching-dynamic-php-pages-easily  the idea was so simple it was almost too easy.  So I took it upon my self to turn the original code and some of the user comments code into a class.  I have made some minor changes(cleaned up if statements, fixed a bug dealing with the cached version of the page not getting serve

A couple of days ago I was out on a run and I starting wondering which statement was faster, a elseif() or a switch().  I am a big fan of switch statements.  I like how clean they look and its really easy to add a new condition to them.  I also assumed that they were much quicker than elseif statements.  So I set up this test to try to prove to myself that I was right.

Pagination is one of the simple features of a site if used right can be a great feature.  For something very simple it seems to be a resource hog.  For a while I have been looking for a way to paganate with out issuing two database queries.  After some quick searching I could not find what I was looking for, so I came up a method that uses a one query + a sub-query.

Quick Review

The method that I have seen the most, looks like some like this.