Didn't he just say parse it via command line tho? This wouldn't take away resources from the web server?
Personally, large batches like this shouldn't be done on your live webserver anyway. No matter how you accomplish it, your taking away a lot of system resources. Best way to do it, is to parse it on a separate computer, then just do a simple db dump with the results. In this case, is PHP any worse a language than a CGI or c++ program? Other than being a lot easier to code (in my opinion :p). I've done the same thing, on many occasions, but I don't run the scripts on my live server, that's just asking for trouble, especially if you make a mistake... (thinks back to his recursive directory delete function) Hehe :) chris kranz fatcuban.com -----Original Message----- From: Svensson, B.A.T. (HKG) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 11 February 2003 15:13 To: Ignatius Reilly Cc: Php Win32 list Subject: RE: [PHP-WIN] reading lines from a file > I trust that I am not the only one to be curious to > learn more concerning your remark. [...] > Would you care to explain in more details why PHP is > a MUST DON'T to do this? Hi, Thanx for your comment. One can talk about things like load balance for scalability, and other boring subjects, but I agree that it is of course hard to establish what is meant with a "good" design without knowing the purposes. But, my general view goes this: "Of course you can use a hammer to nail a screw, but a screw driver will do the job much easier and better." ARGUMENT OF COUPLING & COHESION: By using for instance PHP for parsing a large text files, you are stealing resources from the web server (assuming PHP runs as an instance within Apache), resources better used elsewhere for other purposes. A single application (the parser) can be executed in its own processing space and given independent priority, this will favoring parallelism with multi CPU system; if the parser is smart enough written it might even utilize several CPU's, possible running with low priority as a background task. If the system become over loaded, then parser application can easily be moved onto another system. Anyway, the main idea is that you wants to keep the pears and apples separated from each other. By the way; You're fired! :) //Anders -- PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
