RE: Manuals and Spiders

Thanks for your input alex. What abt cdb files. Is it different for every platform? Also, do the older php versions support reading cdb. We don't need write capabalities. The issue that I already see with cdb is that php should have been compiled with the option. I guess this would again pose a problem as most mirrors wouldn't have choosen this option at compile time. As accordingly to my earlier mail, I guess we are left with no option at the moment other than some type of fast text file search so that every mirror can deploy the same soln. - Div > -----Original Message----- > From: Alex Kiesel [mailto:alex.kiesel@document-root.de] > Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2003 3:05 PM > To: Divyank Turakhia > Cc: 'Gabor Hojtsy'; php-mirrors@lists.php.net > Subject: Re: Manuals and Spiders > > > On Wed, 2003-04-23 at 11:07, Divyank Turakhia wrote: > > 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 ) > > Please note that there are often problems distributing those > database-files on different platforms (I've always had > problems using (g)dbm files created on linux in a FreeBSD > environment). > > Further this is dependant on how the mirrors php was compiled > and which version it is (there still are some mirrors using 4.0.6). > > -Alex > >