Re: HTML pages are faster then php?

On Wed, 2009-01-14 at 14:34 -0800, Lamp Lists wrote: > hi, > as far as I know (at least I was told so) html page will download faster then the same page > made with php getting the same info from mysql, right? > > let's pretend we are building php/mysq based website of one football team. there are pages > of every player, about the team, games etc. > in admin area there is form to enter player's data: first name, last name, DOB, place of > birth, him number (jersey), previous teams, education,... > we submit data and they are stored in database. and we just did for john doe, (id=12345), born > on 1986-10-02 in Paris, TX (do you remember nastasia kinski? :-)) > > on front end there is list of players and you click on john doe's name and the page will > show submitted data. > > what if we, together with storing john doe data into mysql, create html page 12345.html with > all his data. and actually, when visitor clicks on his name on the list of players it will not open > player.php?id=12345 then 12345.html? > > this page will download faster, right? > > downside, depending of type of the website, it could be thousands and thousands of pages, but > still...? > > to edit john doe page, the administrator (in admin area) will pull the data from mysql, do the > changes and submit new ones to mysql and overwrite 12345.html page. > > now, what's bad with this "structure"? what am I thinking wrong? > > thanks > > ll > > > > I've seen CMS's do this kind of thing before, and really you only have an advantage if you are getting lots and lots (think many thousands) of visitors a day. The overhead isn't all that large and the user won't even notice it. The advantage to having the site done only in PHP/MySQL is that should you decide to add elements to the site in the future, with a CMS driven site it's much easier than having to edit the part of the CMS that is outputting the HTML files and then making it run through an re-create each and every page, which will be very slow each time you have to do it. Ash www.ashleysheridan.co.uk