1. Never had any problems with big includes before. 2. Maybe add a console based prog which sits in the background and process's jobs if you don't want to leave the web page open while it works, etc. 3. Make them PDF's (pdflib), we use it, and once you get programming in it, it's fairly easy. 4. I've never seen PHP round a number because it thought it was a string. =) Actually, if it's a string, it's more likely to interepret it as a "don't touch me variable". (That makes sense to me anyway).
Adam Voigt [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, 2002-09-19 at 14:19, William wrote: > I am interested in writing a large scale, cross platform payroll/hr/gl appl > entirely in php + mysql Innodb (for transaction support). > I have 2 php programmers 1 asp/foxpro/access programmer to help me. > > I see 4 big hurdles to overcome in my php design: Large Libraries, Long > Processes, Reporting, Loosely Typed Variables > 1) Payroll apps require large tax libraries (federal, every state and > locality). > > Now If I were interested in using ASP (which I'm not) I would probably > compile these libraries into a .dll that would be loaded in-process with > scripts that require it. > Since I'm using Php I would most likely create a few really huge include > files "fedtax.inc.php","statetax.inc.php","localtax.inc.php" that had all of > my income tax calculations. > I'm guessing these three libraries will be about 200Kb combined and need > to be loaded often. Is it feasible to create such large includes for an app > that will likely have 1000+users. > Is there a better way to keep these functions available to my scripts > without using these large includes? > > 2)Long Processes. > There are 2 types of users...general and admin. There will be only > about 5 administrators. > The admin users will need to run long processes that take about 5-15 > minutes each. They cannot timeout and they must be done throughout the day > while general users are working in the application as well. Is there a > big problem with this? What steps should I take to ensure these long > processes complete and do not timeout. > > 3)Reporting. > I think I can get by with HTML reports for the most part. however checks > and tax forms require precisely positioned reporting abilities. > I think that I will be better off using an external reporting > application (crystal,access,FoxPro etc) to generate these reports. But if > I do that > then I'm sure I'll have to duplicate some of my coding efforts, since > there is no way to achieve interop between these languages. Is there anyway > to minimize the need to duplicate code? > > 4)Loosely Typed Variables. > I fear it might be to simple in PHP to have a dollar amount converted to > a string and become rounded or truncated, because php's loose type. > This might be a smaller issue than I think? Is there a way to strictly > enforce types/conversions so my numerics stay numerics? > > [Big application...Why would I want ot use PHP?] > 1)The system can be developed on a laptop running xitami+win98 and then > deployed on a high perfomance unix+apache machine without any adjustments :) > 2)I won't be locked into vendor specific solutions (Sun EJB server/M$ .Net > server) > 3)I can teach the basics to new guys in about 1 week. > 4)I just really like php, I've used it for 3 1/2 years and it's never failed > me. > > But If there's a better framework for developing such an app, please let me > know. > > Thanks a lot, > Will > > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
