I second this one. I always find my self fine tuning peoples PHP code before I'll deploy it. Its not that PHP is a bad language but a lot of the people doing it really don't grasp the finer aspects of writing code in a scalable fashion and are new to the scene. They end up doing things like implementing unpredictable levels of SQL queries etc, it can just kill performance.
There was one guy who would generate a random number, query an sql table to see if it existed and did it in a loop until he hit on a number that existed. He never quite grasped why it was such a randomly bad performing system :) But everyone learns, I cringe when I look back to my first perl code. John- ---Eric said---- This part I don't get. When I ask a semi advanced question on a PHP list I get a lot of just stupid responses or dead air. Biggest in this case is certainly not best. On the mod_perl list I pretty much end up feeling stupid for asking the question, because the answer comes so quickly and is so simple :) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]