Re: [Phpwebsite-developers] Templates, multi-language

[Christian S. <chr...@sc...>]

Alain Fontaine schrieb:

> There is a very nice translation system for PHP around that is called stPHP.
> It can use one or several text files as a string table, or DBM style
> 'database' files.
> 
> As for a template system, I really love the "Smarty" template system. It is
> the fastest and most flexible I have yet seen.
> 
> The combination of these two systems is as dynamic as dynamic can get ! :)

Let me give my two cents: We should be *very* careful with dynamic functions
that aren't absolutely necessary. Just a few weeks ago I have seen a large
server (Sun's 4-digit E-Series!) handling an Oracle database and six load
balanced Apache web servers collapsing because of excessive dynamic and
personalisation functions. This combination was expected to handle a minimum
12 million page impressions per month. In fact it wasn't able to handle one
million!

On a normal Pentium/Linux Server you can easily reach this point of collapse
with less than a hundred requests per hour. I'm wondering, if Nuke's bad
performance might have something to do with dynamic language processing.
Just a question, not a theory.

Chris