RE: [PHP] Re: MySQL or FlatFile

2002-05-13 Thread webmaster
I am very new to PHP(Still awaiting a book, Only done a few tutorials and read bits of the PHP manual).   But if you used: mysql_pconnect($host, $user, $password) It would keep a consistant connection to the database so it may speed things up a bit.   JJ Harrison[EMAIL PROTECTED]www.tececo.co

RE: [PHP] Re: MySQL or FlatFile

2002-05-12 Thread Martin Towell
If the content is going to be the same each time, then loading from a flat-file would probably be better, because accessing a database would require the connection to be established, the database to parse and execute your query, then send that data back. Where as reading from the file, it's just o