Re: [PHP] Will PHP ever "grow up" and have threading?

On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 6:17 PM, Tommy Pham <[email protected]> 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
>