Which is better: mysql_connect or mysql_pconnect

Question

I\'m a PHP newbie working a some scripts to display some news articles from a databse and wanted to find out a couple of things.

• For opening a connection to a

Answer 1

You should use mysql_pconnect on highly loaded sites, thus the connection would be reused. This may improve speed up to twice...

But, if you do not expect high loads; use normal connect for reasons Svetlozar Angelov mentioned above.