| Re: help wanted! - need to convert to php [message #172430 is a reply to message #172429] |
Thu, 17 February 2011 20:00   |
Jeff North
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On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 16:53:01 +0000, in comp.lang.php Denis McMahon
<denis(dot)m(dot)f(dot)mcmahon(at)googlemail(dot)com>
<4d5d534c$0$2280$bed64819(at)gradwell(dot)net> wrote:
> | On 17/02/11 15:12, Geoff Berrow wrote:
> | > On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 14:09:36 +0000, Denis McMahon
> | > <denis(dot)m(dot)f(dot)mcmahon(at)googlemail(dot)com> wrote:
> | >
> | >> A sensible php program would operate on the underlying data and generate
> | >> the pages as required, rather than wrap all the data up in one page and
> | >> then make sections (in)visible on demand.
> | >
> | > On the other hand, it's all text and loads pretty quick so why worry?
> | >
> | > Converting it to PHP will almost certainly make it slower.
> |
> | Depends on lots of things. Not everyone has dsl connections. I
> | understand large chunks of rural USA are still at the end of POTS modems.
> |
> | I suspect the page will get a lot larger, with eg 690 images of record
> | sleeves, each (on the current design) in a hidden div until you select
> | the tab etc. Also, apart from the first few records, most of the data
> | isn't loaded yet. I suspect that the page as envisaged by the OP will,
> | when "complete" be about 1.25k per song * 690 songs (based on averaging
> | the text and markup of the first five items) for 870 Kb plus images 12kb
> | (I only checked the size of the first one) * 690 = about 8.3 Mb of images.
> |
> | That's about 9 Mb for the single page load.
> |
> | I still think it would be a lot more user friendly to have a php back
> | end to look the individual songs up in a database and present the
> | individual songs one at a time, instead of trying to load the whole lot
> | to the clients machine and then switching between them by hiding /
> | unhiding divs.
Also features like sorting and searching could easily be implemented.
The current page relies on javascript being enabled. Stats show that
between 3% and 10% of users have javascript disabled.
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