[TAG] Couple of perl related questions

[Suramya Tomar]

Jimmy O'Regan wrote:

> Um... is there any reason why the information has to be in a database?
> It seems like you're over complicating things: PHP is able to download
> files (IIRC, fopen can open from URLs), and Perl is well able to do
> CGI (use CGI;), and can be embedded in HTML like PHP using
> HTML::Embperl (http://search.cpan.org/~grichter/HTML-Embperl-1.3.6/Embperl.pod).
> This page (http://www.cs.wcupa.edu/~rkline/perl2php/) has a Perl to
> PHP 'translation', but it's also good for the other direction.

The original machine where my site was hosted was not a very powerfull 
machine so the collage creation took ages.

So I decided to use a client server model where I could run the backend 
on multiple machines and have each of them process a small portion of 
the requests which the system got. Thats why there's a DB involved so 
that I can keep track of who's working on what query and the backend can 
run on my home machine or a different more powerful system.

Right now I am running just one backend process but once I get most of 
the bugs worked out I will prob put them on other systems I have. (Just 
to decrease the wait time..)

Thanks for the links though, They will be usefull in other programs I am 
thinking about. :)

Thanks,
  Suramya

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