RE: [PHP] Couple of questions form a PHP newbie

2003-07-14 Thread Jay Blanchard
[snip] First question: I'm creating a custom content manager for a small site. It will basically be used to store short articles (several paragraphs each). Now my question is, is storing these to a text file going to work or am I going to have problems later on when the file gets to be a reasonab

Re: [PHP] Couple of questions form a PHP newbie

2003-07-11 Thread Simon Fredriksson
If that's the case I recommend using multiple files instead of one big. Just come up with some structure for them. I'd say 10-20MB text is pretty much. //Simon Jason Giangrande wrote: Thanks for your help guys. The checkboxes thing is working great. Michael, regarding using files instead of a

Re: [PHP] Couple of questions form a PHP newbie

2003-07-11 Thread Jason Giangrande
Thanks for your help guys. The checkboxes thing is working great. Michael, regarding using files instead of a database, in your opinion, eventually having a 10-20 MB text file isn't going to cause any server problems if more than a few people are accessing the site at a time? I'm not talking mil

Re: [PHP] Couple of questions form a PHP newbie

2003-07-11 Thread Jonathan Villa
1. Text file or DB My answer -> Learn how to use a database, it will make things much easier 2. Checkbox Try this: then after submission, you could do the dump, or foreach ($_POST["sports"] as $val) echo $val; On Fri, 2003-07-11 at 20:10, Jason Giangrande wrote: > First question

[PHP] Couple of questions form a PHP newbie

2003-07-11 Thread Jason Giangrande
First question: I'm creating a custom content manager for a small site. It will basically be used to store short articles (several paragraphs each). Now my question is, is storing these to a text file going to work or am I going to have problems later on when the file gets to be a reasonable size