Hi all,
I am new to PHP and would like the expert opinion of this forum on
something that I am trying to do
I have about 500K entries (name,value pairs) for which I want ti implement a
very fast lookup. I have access to an Oracle database server but I am afraid
that it does not have any power to handle the volume.
Instead I am thinking of loading these entries in shared memory on
each (Apache) web server and look it up from my PHP script. (I have enough
memory on the server to set aside enough shared memory area to hold these
entries).
Going through the PHP Documentation, I find 2 sets of functions:
1.shm_attach,shm_put_var,shm_get_var etc.
2. shmop_open,shmop_write,shmop_read etc.
Which set of functions is the correct one to use (I am running PHP
4.1.x)
Ideally, I'd like to implement a hash (to use a PERL term) in
shared memory that is accessible from PHP.
Is this proposed approach too outrageous?
Any thoughts on this would be greatly appreciated.
TIA
Krishnan
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