Are you sure about the speed difference with PHP as a module as opposed to a
CGI process. My hosting company (communitech) swears that there is no speed
difference because and I quote them here "as an Apache module PHP4 generates
a huge number of children, thus the speed between PHP4 as a mudule versus a
CGI process will be the same".
Any thoughts?
Shawn
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Puglin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "FreeTrade" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2000 7:39 PM
Subject: RE: [FreeTrade] Fishcart vs Free Trade
> I agree with Jon, get a better ISP.
>
> If you are looking for ISPs make sure that they run PHP as an Apache
module
> and not as a CGI process (big speed difference). I know that Leon has
> recommended he.net to others.
>
> I believe that Leon has a tutorial which was started a while ago by a
> FreeTrade enthusiast. It starts well, then stops. However, it will be
useful
> in the initial setup of your shop. I think he is posting it soon.
>
> As for other products, I hate to do this :-) but there are two other open
> source PHP products that I am aware of:
>
> The Exchange Project and PHPShop. You may want to do a search on them.
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mike Gifford
> > Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2000 2:22 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: [FreeTrade] Fishcart vs Free Trade
> >
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm setting up a new shopping cart system for a small book store that is
> > looking to expand on the Internet (as there is no room to do so in the
> > store). Both Fishcart & Free Trade seem to offer what I'm looking for,
> > in that I'm looking for code that will work on PHP3/4 with MySQL running
> > on a Unix/Linux machine.
> >
> > I had initially hoped to set up both and then compare how they ran &
> > choose from there. Unfortunately, I've run into some problems
> > installing both of them.. I don't have shell access to the server and
> > am limited to one database & using phpMyAdmin to manage the database. I
> > also can't use .htaccess files as the server that I am running does not
> > have PHP installed as a module. The server is running Solaris & Zeus/3.3
> > The php stats can be found here:
> > http://octopusbooks.org/php.php3
> >
> > Fishcart!
> > With Fishcart, I get stumped really very early in the installation
> > process
> > ./install.pl -d mysql
> >
> > Although I do have a firewall that I could play with this on, I won't be
> > installing it there for the production version. Why can't I just have
> > access to the PHP files & the mysql tables? I'm confused by this rather
> > unusual installation process.
> >
> >
> > FreeTrade!
> > With FreeTrade I was able to get a little further, as you can see from
> > this URL:
> > http://octopusbooks.org/shop/htdocs/index.php3
> >
> > Still a really long way from working. Again, from the INSTALL there is
> > the assumption that you have shell access to the server. Worse still is
> > that it looks like this requires Apache modules to set up and run this
> > program. There's no way I can do that on this server...
> >
> > Any suggestions? Any other applications that I should try? Is there a
> > more comprehensive howto somewhere?
> >
> > Please let me know. Also, I expect that the database will grow into
> > hundreds if not thousands of records as they are constantly getting new
> > book titles.
> >
> > Mike
> > --
> > Mike Gifford, OpenConcept Consulting, http://www.openconcept.on.ca
> > Offering everything your organization needs for an effective web site.
> > New Feature Launched: http://www.openconcept.on.ca/phpLinks/
> > "These are not pretty times and the stakes are high." Susan George
> >
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