Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 06/26/05 23:15

ndsoumah@gmail.com wrote:
> Hello Mike
>
> thanks for your very detailled and informative reply. Unfortunatly
> most of the subjets you discussed are way too advanced for me! This is
> my fist php application ever and it's a school assignment! So I guess
> I don't even qualify as a newbie! Anyhow I know -from your post- what
> lies ahead if I decide to pursuit web programming....
>
>
> Thanks a lot.
>

Don't worry too much about what Mike had to say. I've designed hundreds
of web sites using sessions. The smaller sites I just use the default
handling; larger ones I'll use a database. But they all work fine.

Where you will run into problems is when you go to very large sites
split across multiple servers. You need a different approach there.
The largest I worked on had around 30 "front end" servers with load
balancing; data was pulled from over 100 other systems. But this job
was much more than PHP could handle well. We used Java and EJB
(Enterprise Java Beans) for a seamless connection between the web server
and the data.

You can do it like Mike indicates - but when you get this complicated
there are better technologies than PHP.

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