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: