Reply to thread

Message: [QUOTE="ccc31807, post: 4866479"] Why are you using PHP if all PHP does is act as an intermediary to accept input from Flash and emit output to Perl? Do you really need to have insert and select queries from a database? Seems to me you would have a cleaner and more stable app calling Perl directly and by- passing PHP and the DB entirely to the extent that you perform a write and read operation before you start creating your files. get_data($user_supplied_data); insert_data($connection_dbh, $user_supplied_data); create_documents($user_supplied_data); You implied that this would be suitable for a multi-threaded app but didn't directly say so. If you have multiple cores and multiple tasks, you might be able to decompose your tasks into different processes and queue them to pass to any processor that can run the process. If you have only one processor this probably wouldn't make much sense. I have a couple of tasks that process several thousand files at a time using data queried from a database, creating, printing, emailing, and then deleting each file. My main Perl script calls helper scripts each of which is designed to do exactly one thing. It's mostly a hack, but it works (which is the main thing) and I don't have to wait until the last file is handled to start using the earlier files. CC [/QUOTE]