Ryan A wrote:
Hey, I have been asked to make a site that would be pretty high traffic...
quantify 'high traffic'.
problem is, no MySql.
you might consider telling the client that the implementation of a high traffic site should not be constrained from the outset by something as petty as MySQL not being installed? but really it's not such a problem if you consider the possibilities of caching generated output, possibly even using something like Squid in reverse-proxy-cache mode (or what ever they call it). then you have things like the APC for caching data/stuff in shared memory (and caching compiled php files) ... oh and APC kicks ass :-) and if your on a *nix system don't forget that you have tmpfs, usually found at /dev/shm - which is ammounts to a RAM disk, i.e. disk IO is pretty quick ;-) so plenty of ways of going fast without a DB.
Although i have messed around with php's file and directory commands I have never really made anything "really big" using them, I always used MySql, here I dont have that choice as the server itself does not have MySql installed. After a bit of seaching on the SEs I found quite a few links to have text databases and have kind of settled on this one: PHP Text DB (http://www.c-worker.ch/txtdbapi/index_eng.php)
did you consider the sqlite extension already?
If anybody has any experience using the above, or would rather recommend another I would appreciate a reply from you. As usual; any advise / links would also be appreciated. Thanks, Ryan
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