evidence on how *slow* and inefficient qTranslate is … please do something

I understand why you do your own plugin, because patches etc don’t work really well.
It improves fur sure, but still take time with this plugin.
Even qtranslate slug.
I removed some code, commented some parts, replaced some pre_reg etc, still slow for google
Continuing…

Do you know a good debugger, easy to install etc?
Because some tools like xdebug are not recommanded on production servers.

I try P3 plugin
https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/p3-profiler/
maybe those
https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/askapache-debug-viewer/
https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/debug-this/

based on
https://blog.slo-host.com/tag/qtranslate/

I’ve never had issues with Xdebug as far as PHP debuggers go.

I optimized a few parts of qTranslate functions quite heavily and will post my patches soon.

In fact, I may even release a very small plugin that patches qTranslate on the fly, which people can just install and use together with qTranslate to make it faster. It’s part of a bigger plugin I am writing.

Stay tuned.

Thank you normadize

Thank you for all these optimizations. qTranslate is driving me nuts as well, but I don’t know of any alternative.

Could I ask, which version are you applying these mods to?

And would it be too much to ask that you provide a link to your full optimized version?

Thanks!

I’ll try to find time to do this but I’m pretty heavily swamped with work at the moment.

I’m waiting in line, too.
I think qTranslate is a powerful tool, but it’s a shame the author stopped working on it.
When I needed this plugin, it was the best of them, do you know if things have changed now?
Because, as normadice says, maybe it’s moment to move on…

BTW, thanks for your work, guys.

I’m also waiting for the optimized version… thx normadize for your great work! ??

the code in qtrans_use doesn’t work with shortcodes ([:en]). I changed it like this and now it works:

$re = ‘/<!–:[a-z]{2}–>|\[:[a-z]{2}\]/’;

Also, another problem: with the iterator by reference I get an error:
An iterator cannot be used with foreach by reference

So I had to change it to

foreach ($text as $t)

@leoloso: what version of PHP are you using? I never had that issue with PHP 5.3 or PHP 5.4. Arrays or objects can be used with references in foreach() and the iterator var would be a reference to the actual array value or object property (faster for big and nested stuff).

5.2.17

are you suggesting then I ask my hosting provider to update PHP?

I upgraded to PHP 5.3, 5.4 and 5.5, but the iteration by reference never worked (doing a Google Search of the error, most results also say it doesn’t work)

foreach loops with references (to modify directly the contents of arrays/objects) is definitely supported and has been supported for the longest time: https://php.net/manual/en/control-structures.foreach.php

The following tests were done on PHP 5.3.23, but should work just the same for lower versions.

$a = array ('foo', 'bar');
foreach ($a as &$value)
    $value .= ' here!';

Outputs, as expected:

Array
(
    [0] => foo here!
    [1] => bar here!
)

Same with objects:

class A {
    public $foo = 'foo';
    public $bar = 'bar';
}
$a = new A;
foreach ($a as &$prop)
    $prop .= ' here!';
print_r($a);

Outputs, as expected:

A Object
(
    [foo] => foo here!
    [bar] => bar here!
)

It seems there’s something fishy on your end.

p.s. Also see https://php.net/manual/en/control-structures.foreach.php