# Which would get this done fastest, php or mysql?

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**Created:** [February 14, 2006, 7:48am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/which-would-get-this-done-fastest-php-or-mysql/178783 "2006-02-14T07:48:53Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 14, 2006, 7:48am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/which-would-get-this-done-fastest-php-or-mysql/178783/1 "2006-02-14T07:48:53Z")

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Hey. I’m counting how many people are currently surfing on each page at the current time. I have my query that returns where each ip is located at the current time. What I’m trying to do it count how many people are on each page, so i pretty much have to count how many results have which page they’re on.

My questions is…

How should i go about doing this? Should i use mysql to use a COUNT() on each different ip, or should i put it in an array or something and count how many ones have each page?

Thanks.

\_naaman