[MTOS-dev] Dynamic publishing, PHP (Re: Smarty error after MTOS 4.1 upgrade)

[Alvar Freude]

Hi,

-- Dan Wolfgang <dan at danandsherree.com> wrote:

>> I also would argue that dynamic publishing should be one of those
>> "must have" features of plugins posted in the future.
>
> I think this sounds great, I really do. From a broad-overview
> point-of-view, dynamic publishing and plugins that work there seems
> very important.

I don't know if this was already discussed, but I think this topic is 
very important:

For me it seems no good idea to have two different techniques used, two 
programming languages, two template systems etc. Not only that everyone 
who wants to implement something have to learn or know two different 
systems, he/she also should have enough knowledge about security in both 
techniques, a secured server with both and so on.
And, last but not least, some things must be implemented twice. That's 
not nice!


So I think it would be better to implement everything Perl based, without 
any PHP. I don't know why the dynamic stuff is made with PHP. Because CGI 
Perl is slow and Movable Type itself much more slower?

In general it is simple to implement a mod_perl handler with search 
engine friendly URLs, the execution is really fast, and has everything 
which is needed. MT is slow at the moment, mostly because it does dozens 
of SQL queries per request. But this could be done much better.

So I think it would be a good idea to replace all the PHP stuff, create 
some fast mod_perl handlers for dynamic pages and implement everything in 
Perl.

  <http://perl.apache.org/>


Dynamic pages is mostly a feature for professional or experienced users. 
Since the most users who use dynamic publishing are more or less 
professionals, the extra cost for a real server should be no problem; 
here in germany you can get a virtual root server for about 10 Euros, and 
a big root server with Dual Core Athlon 64 X2 6000+, 8 GB RAM, RAID 
(Mirror),  etc. for about 100 Euros a month ...


Ciao
  Alvar


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** Alvar C.H. Freude, http://alvar.a-blast.org/
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