On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 10:18 AM, Sancar Saran <sancar.saran@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wednesday 24 March 2010 03:17:56 Tommy Pham 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 >> * 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 > > > If you design and code correctly. Yes. > > > If you want to use someting alredy. Try TYPO3. > > PS: Your arguments are something about implementation not something about > platform abilities. You can do this things any server side programming with > enough hardware. > > Regards > > Sancar > > Platform abilities = PHP with/without threads. Implementation = If PHP has threads, how do I implement it. If not, what work around / hacks do I need to do. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
