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

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: input type=checkbox name=sports[] value=Baseball input type=checkbox name=sports[] value=Basketball input type=checkbox name=sports[] value=Football input type=checkbox

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

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