[vox-tech] Alternative to PHP Scripting

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> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: [vox-tech] Alternative to PHP Scripting
> From: "Richard S. Crawford" <richard at underpope.com>
> Date: Mon, July 11, 2011 2:08 pm
> To: "lugod's technical discussion forum" <vox-tech at lists.lugod.org>
> 
> 
> I've been trying to use PHP to create a backup script that would read
> filenames from a directory, then copy those filenames into a .zip file, then
> delete the original files. I wrote a PHP script to do this, but it seemed to
> spawn so many httpd child processes that the server load skyrocketed and
> users weren't able to get to our website.
> 
> So my question is, what other options do I have for performing this sort of
> task?

Are you doing something like this?
<?

exec( "ls -1", $results );
for ( $i = 0; $i < count( $results ); $i++ ) :

     $sys_string = "winzip $results[ $i ] -o archive.zip";
     system( $sys_string );

     $sys_string = "rm $results[ $i ]";
     system( $sys_string );

endfor;

?>

I would doubt that this would spawn httpd child processes.

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