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 should try SQLite. It will give you both the speed of writing to a file as well as the power of a database.

• php.net: sqlite2 extension
• php.net: sqlite3 class
• pdo provides a SQLite driver