If you were going to build a multi-user weblog system..

patrickrock

I am curious. I've been fascinated by the whole weblogging thing and I've been looking at all the available tools.

In particular I've been looking at the hosted tools like blogspot, typepad, and diaryland.

They are all .html pages. And yet they have comments.

How do you think they are doing that?

And why aren't they just doing it as a database driven thing? It would be a lot easier to code for.

I assume its because of the speed of serving .html pages vs. serving up and hitting a database every time someone visits a blog.

any thoughts? how would you guys do it?

uidzer0

i'm not sure but could it be that they just setup the blog server to handle all .html files the same as .php, it could also be a server side include although that is usually a .shtml as well.

dta

check your MIME types, you can setup apache to parse anything you want as php..

should be in httpd.conf, course you probably don't have access to your servers conf files 🙂

drawmack

I'd go to hotscripts.com and download one of the umpteen million that are already written

patrickrock

Im not trying to build a system.

I was just looking at them and started looking at file types and noticed everything was .html.

That seemed weird. I've noticed that a lot of news sites use html files as well.

If you guys were going to build a massive CMS/News/Blog system, what would you do?

That's really all I'm after here, some discussion about performance merits of serving a PHP page VS. server an HTML page. Obviously there'd be PHP on the authoring side, but everything you author could be written out to a straight HTML page.

You could store everything in a database and batch it up, and push out new pub at every hour.

or, you could server up PHP, but use caching so that the server doesn't generate a new page every hit.

Obviously there's a billion ways to do it. What's the most logical?

drawmack

they probably aren't actually html pages. You can cinfigure your webserver to associate php with the html extension so that .html will run php