Devit!

This list in the link below may be from last year but it could very well save the average developer from a headache or two. The items on this list are definitely classified as time savers. If you’re a php developer I suggest checking out the story linked below.

Here’s #1 from the list:

Use ip2long() and long2ip() to store IP addresses as integers instead of strings in a database. This will reduce the storage space by almost a factor of four (15 bytes for char(15) vs. 4 bytes for the integer), make it easier to calculate whether a certain address falls within a range, and speed-up searches and sorts (sometimes by quite a bit).

Check out the rest here: 10 things you (probably) didn’t know about php

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