Hi Steve,

"Steve W" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> My company is looking to move our site away from Cold Fusion due to
> the cost. We had talked about JSP, but I would highly prefer PHP.
> After evaluation, with the generic database functions now supporting
> Oracle in CVS, I think this might be a possibility. However, there are
> 2 concerns I have in converting from Cold Fusion.
>
> 1) Application variables

See http://php.weblogs.com/php_application_variables

> 2) Cached queries

And the ADOdb class library supports cached sql queries

http://php.weblogs.com/adodb


>
> I've seen some solutions to both problems, but mainly I want the
> solution to meet one and ideally both of the following qualifications.
> First, I don't want to have to use an add in module. I'd like to only
> use core PHP functions and modules that are part of the full PHP
> distribution and not SRM or other add-on modules. Second, I'd prefer
> not to have to serialize the results, save as a file, and read the
> file as updates would seem to become more difficult on higher load
> systems with having to update files. Updates to our cached queries and
> application variables generally only occur a few times a day.
>

If it only occurs a few times a day, cost of serializing is not an issue,
especially if you cache everything on a ramdisk.

> These issues above as well as things like not being able to centrally
> configure a database connection by using an alias for the name are
> areas PHP lacks in comparision to Cold Fusion. Our CF application gets
> installed at client sites. Using PHP, it would require a code change
> in a db connect file to change the DB connection information where it
> really should be configurable in a central PHP conf file.
>
> Even with this being said, I'd like to use PHP for our application if
> the 2 issues above can be resolved.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Steve
>



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