Log to file via PHP or log to MySQL database - which is quicker?

Question

I have a database driven website serving about 50,000 pages.

I want to track each webpage/record hit. I will do this by creating logs, and then batch processing the logs

Answer 1

You could try both ways using log4php, which supports:

• Configuration through xml and properties file (same structure as log4j).
• File, RollingFile, DailyFile, Echo, Console, Mail, PEAR::Db, PHP error, Syslog or NT events and Socket appenders.
• Simple, TTCC, Pattern, Html and Xml Layouts.
• Nested (NDC) and Mapped (MDC) Diagnostic Contexts.
• Switchable internal debug.

Regarding logging into a file, you could improve performance by buffering the write requests.