Re: [PHP3] php vs WebCatalog

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texte = >Dave, > >Isn't WebCatalog a shopping cart program? If Im right, how can you compare >PHP to it? PHP is programming language. The name WebCatalog is misleading. The scripting language used is called WebDNA. With WebDNA, you can build anything, just like PHP. The question is, who can do more and for how long.I am trying to compare feature sets and notice that WebCatalog/WebDNA incorporates many features that you would have to build in PHP.Automatic Credit Card Transaction Shopping Carts Temporary Creation of Area for Online Downloads after Online Purchase to name just a few Wizard to create Database and Forms Unix, NT, Mac cross platform support Wickedly Fast Database in RAM >Now, Im not a database or programming expert, but doesn't it sound crazy to >load an entire catalog database into RAM? It might make sense for small >catalogs but what about catalogs with thousands of items or multiple >catalogs. I can't imagine how even a highend server would handle this.If you factor out the graphics which you would not store in RAM, only a reference to the graphic, I think that even a 100,000 entries would take up less than 100 megs of RAM. A million entries would fit into 500 to 750 megs of RAM. Consider now that Altavista maintains its entries in RAM(so I've heard), you see that perhaps its not that bad of a way to go.> >Any website (amazon.com, yahoo.com, etoys.com, terraserver.com) that have >large databases run some type of SQL server, whether it be Oracle, MS-SQL, >Informix,etc.This is correct. And how many companies are as large as these are? Most companies might have at most several thousand products. Most companies will have allot less.> >Then again, I might be wrong. Can an expert comment on this? >------------------------------------------------------------- Brought to you by CommuniGate Pro - The Buzz Word Compliant Messaging Server. To end your Mail problems go to .This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
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>Dave, > >Isn't WebCatalog a shopping cart program? If Im right, how can you compare >PHP to it? PHP is programming language. The name WebCatalog is misleading. The scripting language used is called WebDNA. With WebDNA, you can build anything, just like PHP. The question is, who can do more and for how long.I am trying to compare feature sets and notice that WebCatalog/WebDNA incorporates many features that you would have to build in PHP.Automatic Credit Card Transaction Shopping Carts Temporary Creation of Area for Online Downloads after Online Purchase to name just a few Wizard to create Database and Forms Unix, NT, Mac cross platform support Wickedly Fast Database in RAM >Now, Im not a database or programming expert, but doesn't it sound crazy to >load an entire catalog database into RAM? It might make sense for small >catalogs but what about catalogs with thousands of items or multiple >catalogs. I can't imagine how even a highend server would handle this.If you factor out the graphics which you would not store in RAM, only a reference to the graphic, I think that even a 100,000 entries would take up less than 100 megs of RAM. A million entries would fit into 500 to 750 megs of RAM. Consider now that Altavista maintains its entries in RAM(so I've heard), you see that perhaps its not that bad of a way to go.> >Any website (amazon.com, yahoo.com, etoys.com, terraserver.com) that have >large databases run some type of SQL server, whether it be Oracle, MS-SQL, >Informix,etc.This is correct. And how many companies are as large as these are? Most companies might have at most several thousand products. Most companies will have allot less.> >Then again, I might be wrong. Can an expert comment on this? >------------------------------------------------------------- Brought to you by CommuniGate Pro - The Buzz Word Compliant Messaging Server. To end your Mail problems go to .This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to NTR

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