Re: Scalability and large site issues

> In PHP, if you find something's not fast enough, you can > write some of your code in C, compile it and call that from the > PHP page. Our only experience in doing that is doing 'exec' - I > imagine there's a faster way, or you could be adventurous and > write it as a PHP module to compile it in to PHP. Maybe > even release it for the rest of us, if it's useful. Yes, the answer for PHP is to write an extension. It is not very different from writing a COM module for ASP. With the new build framework in PHP 4, it is actually pretty easy. At the O'Reilly Open Source conference in Monterey, I walked through the steps on how to build a custom extension like this. We actually did it live right in the class there. The slides are online at http://conf.php.net (Advanced Tutorial). You are probably better off reading through README.EXT_SKEL in the PHP 4 distribution though. -Rasmus