RE: [PHP-WINDOWS] Re: [PHP-GENERAL] How FAST is Php?

I've just bought a book on PHP published by WROX which states that PHP4 is capable of handling large web sites that get over one million hits per day. Is this true at this time? Or is it something that PHP4 will be capable of after a few more months? Or is the claim baseless? I'm just getting started with learning PHP. I'd be interested in hearing from anyone who used it in a large project: how many lines of code, how heavy the load on the server, how well PHP worked for them. Also, what style of programming. If someone used PHP for OOP in a medium-to-large project, I'd like to know how well PHP does with OOP. If there's a better forum for asking these questions, please let me know. TIA Bob Hall -----Original Message----- From: Zeev Suraski [mailto:zeev@zend.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2000 12:53 PM To: Daniel Gustafsson Cc: php-windows@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP-WINDOWS] Re: [PHP-GENERAL] How FAST is Php? On Tue, 6 Jun 2000, Daniel Gustafsson wrote: > How good performance-wize is PHP4 under Windows? Is it sufficient enough to > power some sort of online-community with hundreds of online users? =) While someone has complained about PHP 4.0 being extremely slow under Windows, we haven't been able to reproduce this behavior, and it appears to be more or less as fast as its UNIX cousins. However, in order to support an online community with hundreds of users, you won't be able to rely on the stability of the ISAPI module at this time. So, you'd have to use the CGI version, which will significantly higher the load on your server. All in all - you'd have to actually see if it does the job for you. I don't think that too many people have done this before (but if someone here has - by all means - say so :) Zeev -- Zeev Suraski <zeev@zend.com> http://www.zend.com/ -- PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-windows-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For additional commands, e-mail: php-windows-help@lists.php.net To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net