On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 09:15:41PM -0700, Ian Holsman wrote: > >No frickin' way. PHP is a filter, not a handler. Something else generates > >the content, then PHP parses it and executes it. > > It should also be a handler because in the normal case it just reads a > flat file off the disk. > so that in the >general< case you won't get the slowdown penalty for the > people who are going to be use it ontop of something else. > > I'm not saying that you shouldn't have a filter mode.. just that you > should have a handler mode as well. (and so should mod-include IMHO)
In an ideal world, the filter system would make the distinction transparent, both in terms of the API and the performance. I think we should make this our long-term goal. -aaron
