On 06/15/2009 05:31 PM, Rudi Ahlers wrote: > What I meant was, PHP talks to PHP script engine, which talks to Apache, > which then talks to system commands. - is there a quicker way of doing it? you might find that this is the fastest way of doing things in a single stack, if you dont have state movement. Have you looked at the complexity of getting a java stack or a ruby stack up ( as a comparison ) ? - KB