Re: Manuals and Spiders

> I agree, that we should not need a mysql db at each mirror, which is why > I mentioned that we could use a db such as cdb / db3 / db4 etc. This > does not require any server to be running at the mirror. We can directly > use existing php functions to talk to such a database. ( > http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.dba.php ) > > As the last option we could look at splitting the file. Which is what a > database would internally do. So instead of replicating what a db does > internally and making our own b-trees out of this file, we could look at > using a standard database such as cdb / db3 / db4 as far as possible. I > don't have too much prior experience with any of these db's, though I > have used cdb files extensively in qmail deployments. And they do > provide blazing fast access speeds. If someone on this list has prior > exp with these formats, please put in your comments about this. I don't know what can we expect from the mirror sites' PHP setups. On widows, db3 is the only built in thing in the dba extension, but on Linux, you need to specify what would you like to compile in. So using this would mean much work for our mirror maintainers. Therefore we need to have code to handle if a mirror has no support for the automatic selection. Then this adds one more possibility to the diversity of php.net mirrors ;((( BTW we do have mirror sites with PHP 4.0.4, 4.0.5, 4.0.6, 4.1.0 set up, this is why we need to have compatibility code in phpweb every time we introduce new features (ie. we are not free to use $_GET, $_POST and the like, only with some compatibility code added).... > Storing the country code in the cookie is a good idea as it would save > us a lookup each time. Though, it may give issues to roaming users. If I > am in china right now on a buiness conf, when I first access the php.net > website using my laptop, I would have china stored in my cookie for > life. So we would have to expire this every 30 days or some other > reasonable figure. Yep, I never thought about adding that cookie once and for all... Goba