Is it bad to include a lot of files in PHP like it is for file based Sessions?

Question

After reading about how file based PHP sessions are not the greatest for performance, it has me thinking. Does this mean a PHP script including a lot of files is bad as wel

Answer 1

Personally, I've always had more problems with the data the pages process rather than the size and amount of source file includes. However, I write heavily parameterised code in abstraction layers (think of this as the opposite of cut-n-paste programming) so a lot of different work is done by the same code merely by changing half-a-dozen simple parameters.