PHP with MySQL is slow

Question

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Answer 1

It could be happening in a couple of places: 1) the query itself, or 2) the creation of the mysqli instance (and resulting db connection). If I had to guess, I suspect your problem is (2).

One quick-and-dirty debugging method is to use microtime().

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.microtime.php

Example:

$start = microtime(TRUE); // Start counting

$mysqli = new mysqli('localhost', 'root', '', 'testdb');

$temp = microtime(TRUE) - $start;
echo "Time to connect: {$temp}";  // Check elapsed time

$mysqli->set_charset("utf8");
if(mysqli_connect_errno()) {
    echo "Connection Failed: " . mysqli_connect_errno();
    exit();
}

$temp = microtime(TRUE) - $start;
echo "Time to setup: {$temp}";  // Check elapsed time

$testreceive = $_POST['test_id'];
$query = "SELECT First_Name from tblperson";
$result = $mysqli->query($query);

$temp = microtime(TRUE) - $start;
echo "Time to query: {$temp}";  // Check elapsed time

$row = $result->fetch_all(MYSQLI_ASSOC);

$temp = microtime(TRUE) - $start;
echo "Time to fetch {$temp}";  // Check elapsed time