________________________________________ i would like to display on my web application, the latest 3 events added to my web DB. something like latest 3 event which happen to company. what is the best way knowing that each event is translated in several languages and stored into DB ? should i directly read latest 3 events from DB using PHP ? should i firstly query DB for each language, store the result into a txt file (for example) and after using AJAX or PHP read this file ? what do you use usally ? If you can figure out the SQL to do it, that is almost always faster. Even if you have to do 2 queries, hopefully simpler ones, it's still faster. Relative Expense Operations: EXPENSIVE | Opening DB Connection (possibly not on localhost, possibly over socket versus TCP/IP stack moves it down a level) | Opening local file | PHP loop through many many values | Complicated DB "JOIN" with many many rows | PHP loop through small number of values | One more small simple DB query CHEAP Of course, you can make a mess of this with extremes like a very very very remote DB, or a 486 DB server with an 8-cpu 64G RAM webserver or something "forced" to prove me wrong. And, of course, "many" could mean different things on different hardware; You have to be comparing on the same hardware, or it all goes out the window. But the above is a general rule of thumb. Hope that helps. It sure would have been useful to me in the first few years of my PHP programming :-) _______________________________________________________ The information in this email or in any file attached hereto is intended only for the personal and confiden- tial use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed and may contain information that is propri- etary and confidential. If you are not the intended recipient of this message you are hereby notified that any review, dissemination, distribution or copying of this message is strictly prohibited. This communica- tion is for information purposes only and should not be regarded as an offer to sell or as a solicitation of an offer to buy any financial product. Email trans- mission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error- free. P6070214 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
