Using comet with PHP?
- by ryeguy
I was thinking of implementing real time chat using a PHP backend, but I ran across this comment on a site discussing comet:
My understanding is that PHP is a
terrible language for Comet, because
Comet requires you to keep a
persistent connection open to each
browser client. Using mod_php this
means tying up an Apache child
full-time for each client which
doesn’t scale at all. The people I
know doing Comet stuff are mostly
using Twisted Python which is designed
to handle hundreds or thousands of
simultaneous connections.
Is this true? Or is it something that can be configured around?