(sent to list -- Phil, if you want yours to the list, you might want to resend. Have I mentioned lately I hate lists that don't reply-To by default?)
> Is anyone's web server really that strapped for disk space? This kind of > compression is great for operating systems and disk controllers but is > generally inappropriate for things like web applications. Why say "$prefs |= > 32768" when you can say "$prefs[15] = 1"? Because databases don't store arrays? > a string can be a real challenge, whereas in a normalized (1NF+) database > it's trivial. OTOH, if you don't need the flexibility/scalability, you > probably don't need to bother. As I said, putting the permissions into databases is more powerful, but sometimes the above is easier to maintain than a table of permissions, a table of users, a table of which users are in which groups, a table of what permissions each group has, etc. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Web Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
