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PHP in a Nutshell
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PHP in a Nutshell

by Paul Hudson
October 2005
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
372 pages
11h 35m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Don't Use CGI

You have two options when installing PHP: use it as a CGI executable, or use it as an Apache/ISAPI module. Although there are advantages to both options, running PHP as a module is overwhelmingly favorable when it comes to performance, as all of PHP and its extension modules reside in memory as opposed to being loaded with every request.

From a purely performance-motivated point of view, you would be crazy to run PHP as a CGI executable.

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