Re: operational musings

On Tue, 2007-02-27 at 18:59 -0600, Jay Blanchard wrote: > Howdy cats and kittens! > > I had an interesting thought after watching a demo of a POS system and > wondered if the same type of methodology could be applied in a PHP > application. I haven't thought this all the way through, but a > fully-hatched idea like this could signal a major change in applications > designed with PHP. > > In the POS if the network connectivity was lost the store could continue > to operate, once the network connectivity was restored the data from > each store would sync back up and data would be sent to the central > server, yadda, yadda, yadda. Of course this is in a client/server > application with an executable residing on each workstation. > > So, if you wanted to do this with PHP you would likely have to have a > local web /database server (each store), establish a socket (primary and > store servers?) to watch for an outage/restore and then write the code > to support the sync up. Can it be done with PHP? It would definitely be > worth the trouble given the frequency that connections to stores get > lost. Let's make a check list: local webserver -- check local database server -- check socket support -- check write code -- check All signs point to YES :) Cheers, Rob. -- .------------------------------------------------------------. | InterJinn Application Framework - http://www.interjinn.com | :------------------------------------------------------------: | An application and templating framework for PHP. Boasting | | a powerful, scalable system for accessing system services | | such as forms, properties, sessions, and caches. InterJinn | | also provides an extremely flexible architecture for | | creating re-usable components quickly and easily. | `------------------------------------------------------------'