Re: [PHP3] MiddleWare

In article <393FCAC3.A2B66235@701.com>, abubic@701.com (Alen Bubic) wrote: > One more general interest question: > > I have created some software that repeatedly requests large data > sets over the web. In addition, these data sets are then processed > using php3. My question is this: Would there be any benefit to > creating some sort of middleware that's written in C and/or Java that > runs directly on the server and is used to manage the data and > processing? If there's any way to re-code the processing done by PHP3 into SQL, do it. PHP3 does not do long loops well at all. If you can upgrade, PHP4 will ameliorate this (the long loops in PHP, not the SQL), but SQL solution will probably still win. Look into creating SQL functions or stored procedures or whatever they are called in your database software. -- Richard Lynch | If this was worth $$$ to you, buy a CD US Customer Support Director | from one of the artists listed here: Zend Technologies USA | http://www.L-I-E.com/artists.htm http://www.zend.com | (this has nothing to do with Zend, duh!)