RE: [phplib] Re: The future of PHPlib From: Chris Johnson (chris <email protected>)
Date: 04/18/01

The problem is not so much PHPLIB on a high-volume site. The problem is
PHP.

That is not to say that one cannot use PHP on a high-volume site. The
site http://www.amihotornot.com/ is very high volume, and runs on PHP
and MySQL. They use cached DB and multiple hosts, though. There's an
article about it in the latest Software Development magazine (print).

But generally speaking, PHP suffers from being interpreted and from
losing its entire context with each web page or call from the web
server. If PHP ran in an application server, the speed and ability to
handle high load could be greatly improved. This is not my idea. All
the credit goes to our esteemed original PHPLIB developer, Kristian
Köhntopp.

Middle volume sites will probably run just fine with PHP and PHPLIB. It
will depend on your specific site, your hardware and your design and
coding.

If you are Yahoo! with over a million hits a day, you probably have the
money to buy the best hardware and the best application servers, so you
probably won't be using PHPLIB anyway.

I hope this makes sense. I did not intend to criticize PHP and PHPLIB
in my remark about "low volume" versus "high volume". I just happen to
be somewhat pedantic about being exactly correct. It would be false to
say that PHP and PHPLIB could run something like Amazon.com or Yahoo!
without excessive hardware costs to keep the performance up.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: jl <email protected> [mailto:jl <email protected>]

> Hello Chris,
>
> on Fri, 13 Apr 2001 09:12:23 -0500, you wrote:
>
> > I believe PHP and PHPLIB will remain a viable combination
> for low volume
> > web sites for a number of years to come.
>
> Well then, what about middle to high volume sites? Is there an
> alternative to PHPLIB?
>
> --
> Jochen Lillich
> http://www.teamlinux.de

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