These guys have written a PHP/MySQL counter script thats available for download. http://www.kastle.net/products/php/dbcounter/
I've used their old one thats writes to a text file rather than a MySQL db and its very good also. cheers Mark Dale On Sun, 14 Apr 2002, Colin Faber wrote: > Having objectively looked at both I would say a simple DBI perl app > running under mod_perl with Apache::DBI installed would be your best > bet for performance. Connection pooling is something you'll need to > keep the overall load down. > > PHP's pconnect is good but seems to be a bit broken in it's pooling > practices. > > Anyone else have any suggestions? > > > > Craig Westerman wrote: > > > > I'm needing counter for site that receives 80 to 120 hits a minute at peak > > load. Many I > > have tried cause excessive server load and need to be deactivated or they > > lose data and return to zero without warning. All tried so far have been > > written in Perl writing to a file. > > > > Anyone here know of a counter that would handle HIGH traffic with little > > added server load? Would using MySQL to store count be of any benifit? > > > > Would Perl or PHP be faster for writing count to MySQL? > > > > Thanks > > > > Craig ><> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
