On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 6:17 PM, Tommy Pham <tommyhp2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Let's go back to my 1st e-commerce example. The manufacturers list is > about 3,700. The categories is about about 2,400. The products list > is right now at 500,000 and expected to be around 750,000. The site > is only in English. The store owner wants to expand and be I18n: > Chinese, French, German, Korean, Spanish. You see how big and complex > that database gets? The store owners want to have this happens when a > customer clicks on a category: > > * show all subcategories for that category, if any > * show all products for that category, if any, > * show all manufacturers, used as filtering, for that category and subcategories > * show price range filter for that category > * show features & specifications filter for that category > * show 10 top sellers for that category and related subcategories forgot to mention: * show 10 random sale specials for that category and subcategories > * the shopper can then select/deselect any of those filters and > ability to sort by manufacturers, prices, user rating, popularity > (purchased quantity) > * have the ability to switch to another language translation on the fly > * from the moment the shopper click on a link, the response time (when > web browser saids "Done" in the status bar) is 5 seconds or less. > Preferably 2-3 seconds. Will be using stopwatch for the timer. > > Now show me a website that meets those requirements and uses PHP, I'll > be glad to support your argument about PHP w/o threads :) BTW, this > is not even enterprise requirement. I may have another possible > project where # products is over 10 million easily. With similar > requirements when the user click on category. Do you think this site, > which currently isn't, can run on PHP? > > Regards, > Tommy > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
