Possible code improvement, performance

File: /lib/Advman/Dal.php
Line: 43 (approx)

These lines if never propagated with a value, default to an empty value, that always forces a save of an empty value, which will be updated next time with another empty value.

Essentially adding unnecessary load or in my case 0.5 seconds, which could be avoided.

# This code always wants to save

// Get networks data
$d = get_option('plugin_advman_networks');
if (empty($d)) {
    $d = array();
    $save = true;
}
$data['networks'] = $d;

# Save functions (update_option) are expensive in terms of load, causing the 0.5s lag

if ($save) {
	update_option('plugin_advman_settings', $data['settings']);
	update_option('plugin_advman_ads', $data['ads']);
	update_option('plugin_advman_networks', $data['networks']);
	update_option('plugin_advman_stats', $data['stats']);
}

# In my case I made it ignore empty arrays. I also moved the update_options in to the actually save trigger, as it was calling update_option 4 times when just the stats were updated, thus 3 times not needed.

// Get networks data
$d = get_option('plugin_advman_networks');
if (empty($d) && !is_array($d)) {
	$d = array();
	update_option('plugin_advman_networks', $d);
}
$data['networks'] = $d;

Hope that helps, let me know if I can help more.

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