Comments on: AJAX Is Interesting, But The Basics Are Better

By: Joe Stump

Joe Stump — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 06:55:33 +0000

Cudos, PMJ, as I agree totally. I wrote an article for PHPBuilder years ago saying that very same thing with regards to SQL (ie. it’s based on relational algebra, etc.) and the people who start using GUI’s for SQL creation are at a disadvantage.

By: Hatem

Hatem — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 20:12:40 +0000

AJAX is more about making a better UI experience, not about forgetting the basics … so you’ll have always : AJAX = The Basics + fancy UI things …

By: ryan king

ryan king — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 17:34:44 +0000

Of course, Paris Hilton would have been about 12 years old at the time….

By: kenrick

kenrick — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 13:53:20 +0000

Yeah you gotta love journalism. Pretty soon there will be rumors about how you started PHP on drunken binge weekend with Paris Hilton.

By: Rasmus

Rasmus — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 08:31:23 +0000

Note that the internetnews story is a rather vague summary of my actual talk. Taking very short soundbytes like it does can cause important context to be lost.

For example, it says:

“For the items that MySQL doesn’t handle as well as PostgreSQL, Lerdorf noted that some features can be emulated in PHP itself, and you still end up with a net performance boost.”

What I was talking about was actually emulating MySQL’s native prepared statement API because that API can’t make use of MySQL’s query cache. By emulating prepare/execute in PHP we can use the direct query API and thus hit the query cache in case that is something that would benefit your application. So it had nothing to do with PostgreSQL and as has been so widely reported, I didn’t suggest that people switch from PostgreSQL to MySQL by emulating PostgreSQL things in PHP.