distributed system programming with php

Question

I'm doing a system for a hospital in my country as the final year project of my degree, my supervisor specially asked me to use php and mysql for this. i don't have any experience with distributed systems and php programming, can any one help me out to build my base and improove my knowledge stating some sites, books to refer to overcome this matter.

regards, rangana.

Answer 1

I'm guessing you want something like this

Answer 2

You might want to consider the literature on the following topic:

• 3 Tier Application Architectures (or N-tier in general)

Tiers in general would be the DataStore (an RDBMs usually), the Business Logic Layer and the Presentation Layer.

Each layer can be examined and analyzed thoroughly, depending on your needs and solutions such as Load Balancing, Workload Distribution (in a sometimes clustered environment), Database Clustering/Replication/Splitting, might be needed.

Good luck with your project.