Chris, et al, Nope, I never mentioned the command line at all, but it is probably how I would have done it if I hadn't passed it over to the PERL guys.
It would have been useful to go through a parsing routine just to learn how its done (never know when it might be a useful trick). Even so, I still have plenty on my plate migrating my Filemaker/Lasso system over to MySQL/PHP/Java. Cheers George > -----Original Message----- > From: Chris Kranz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 11 February 2003 4:30 pm > To: 'Php Win32 list' > Subject: RE: [PHP-WIN] reading lines from a file > > > 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 > > -- PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
