[FX.php List] FM Scripts vs. PHP

[Joel Shapiro]

Hi all

Looking for people's thoughts and experiences here.

In the FM PHP API webinar a couple weeks ago, Lance pushed the idea  
of running FM scripts from the PHP.

I know some people on this list have often said that it's preferable  
to do everything in PHP if possible.  Now I'm wondering why.  Have  
you seen degraded performance when running FM scripts?  Have you seen  
instability?  Are you PHP purists?  Do you know something that others  
don't know?

I asked Lance about how running FM scripts would affect performance,  
and he said running FM scripts is often no bigger a load on the  
server than processing solely through PHP, and that sometimes it can  
be faster.

Also, I had understood from this group (perhaps mistakenly) that the  
server puts other incoming hits 'on hold' while processing FM  
scripts, but Lance said that in fact you can even run additional FM  
scripts while one FM script is still executing.

Does whether or not the WPE is on the same machine as FMServer make  
any difference here?

Anybody have an opinion? ;-)

TIA,
-Joel