Re: [PHP] counter for HIGH traffic site

2002-04-08 Thread Jim Lucas [php]
as long as you are only inserting information into the mysql db on each page load, then you shouldn't have a problem. make sure you keep you indecies down to a minimum. Jim Lucas - Original Message - From: "Craig Westerman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "php-general-list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [PHP] counter for HIGH traffic site

2002-04-08 Thread heinisch
If it should be fast, avoid using mysql, just write a file with your number, if thereĀ“s a new request, get your number, add one and write it back. So you avoid mysql-"SQL parsing", opening Database, searching data, send to process, php putting in var... just open, read, add, write, close HTH O

RE: [PHP] counter for HIGH traffic site

2002-04-08 Thread SHEETS,JASON (Non-HP-Boise,ex1)
tiple clients loading pages. Jason -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 08, 2002 12:56 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP] counter for HIGH traffic site If it should be fast, avoid using mysql, just write a file with your numbe

RE: [PHP] counter for HIGH traffic site

2002-04-08 Thread Matthew Walker
You definitely want to use MySQL for this. Ignore all those people who recommended text file DBs. They are /SLOW/. MySQL is very very fast. To show you a small sample of how fast, here's the debug data from one of my scripts, showing how long the page took to generate, and how many queries were ru

RE: [PHP] counter for HIGH traffic site

2002-04-08 Thread olinux
g about. > > You may well be best off using a database, either > that or invest some > serious thought into how you are going to handle > multiple clients loading > pages. > > Jason > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: [PHP] counter for HIGH traffic site

2002-04-08 Thread Miguel Cruz
On Mon, 8 Apr 2002, Matthew Walker wrote: > You definitely want to use MySQL for this. Ignore all those people who > recommended text file DBs. They are /SLOW/. MySQL is very very fast. I'll echo this. MySQL is hyperoptimized for this sort of transaction. It already has the databases open so that

Re: Re: [PHP] counter for HIGH traffic site

2002-04-08 Thread Adam Voigt
You might also want to setup the table your updating the hits in as a HASH type table which runs completely in RAM, and as a result is extremely fast. The only obvious downside, is the data (or hits in this case) are lost on reboot. Adam Voigt [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 8 Apr 2002 09:41:39 -0700,