[UPHPU] Rails vs PHP

[Daniel C.]

On 3/26/07, Roberto Mello <rmello at fslc.usu.edu> wrote:
> Yeah, but it has been hacked up together to get those things in. At my job
> I work with a large medical application written in PHP. We sometimes have
> to do data migrations that rely on our existing PHP code, and PHP *sucks*
> horribly at long-running processes. Invariably PHP dies several times for
> inexplicable reasons.

I don't know who the genius was that decided to put this system
together in PHP, but there are ways around this.  They all revolve
around cutting the data up into manageable chunks and re-running the
process multiple times, checking at each iteration to see where you
left off.