• Hi. I am very new to PHP coding in general and hope someone can answer this query.

    Let’s say I have this if/else statement running on my WordPress theme that displays specific texts when certain conditions are fulfilled:

    <?php {
    	if (condition) {
    		echo "sample text";
    	} else if (second condition) {
    		echo "sample text 2";
    	} else if (third condition) {
    		echo "sample text 3";
    	} else {
    		echo "sample text 4";
    	}
    } ?>

    The conditions are is_page(), is_home(), is_single() etc. Does this cause heavy load on the server? Thanks.

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  • If it does we are all screwed. 🙂

    Sure, an if statement is more load than having no statement, but in most cases you are measuring in thousandths, tens of thousandths, or better of a second. And why use a scripting language like PHP if you aren’t going to script stuff?

    Thread Starter sparklette

    (@sparklette)

    That makes sense. It’s good news for me. Thanks 🙂

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