Performance question

If no one in this forum can answer this, can someone point me in the direction of list or other resource that may be able to provide some input? Thanks in advance. -----Original Message----- From: Fifield, Mike [mailto:Mike.Fifield@schwab.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2002 9:22 AM To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP] Performance question Ok I have a performance question. I run a wallpaper site; this is the url to the main gallery page http://www.cognitivedistortion.com/php/gal.php <http://www.cognitivedistortion.com/php/gal.php> The page does a dir read and lists all pictures found in each directory, it does this every time the page is loaded. Now at first this seemed like a incredible inefficient way to do generate pages. The alternatives to this would be to generate a list of the pictures and save them in a text file, or create a list of the pictures and store them in a database. If I use a text file I will have to read the text file every time the page is generated which seems like it would take just as long as reading the file allocation table, which I am doing now. As for the database to get the same thing done I would first have to log into the database and then pull the information. I was hoping to get some input as to which would be the fastest/ best way to use.