Re: FolderDB - advice wanted

2019-07-22 Thread Bill Stephenson
FWIW, I made an app way back in 2002 that uses CGI.pm’s “Save” function to save a CGI object. CGI.pm uses a simple "name=value” per line format that I store in files in directories for specific users as a simple database. It’s still in use. It’s very fast, easy to work with, and very reliable.

Re: FolderDB - advice wanted

2019-07-22 Thread Joel Wallis Jucá
Hello Rene, Have you ever tried YAML? If you're planning to manage the data manually through a text editor, YAML will provide a DX (Developer Experience) way better than JSON. It works great for simple websites (Jekyll uses something similar, called Data Files

Re: FolderDB - advice wanted

2019-07-21 Thread Martin Broerse
Hi Rene, I actually don't see what you want advice on but I can say 2 things about it. - Use CouchDB with keys like `rss_2_-MM-DD-hh-mm-ss-CATEGORY_SUBMENU_PATH` or `rss_2_CATEGORY_SUBMENU_PATH--MM-DD-hh-mm-ss` depending on what you want to find with mango queries and use as

FolderDB - advice wanted

2019-07-21 Thread Rene Veerman
Hi. I like JSON a lot better than the SQL data model, but now that i've been using it for a few years, i find myself combining file system storage of lots of JSON files in many sub-folders into a web app, like news gathering with commandline PHP per N minutes from 280+ RSS online sources, into a