On Wed, 26 Sep 2001, Lynn Glessner wrote:
> For a small business intranet, I want the user to fill out the form, save it
> onto the web server, and be able to retreive it later. A text file will be
> fine, there won't be any need for reporting etc and a database would be
> overkill. I would like to have a directory structure on the web server that
> matches with three of the fields on the form, a directory for each engineer,
> then a subdirectory for each band (created as needed), and then a text file
> for each song name that that contains the state of the form. Each form will
> be the tracking sheet for a particular song.
>From what you have described, why do you think it would be overkill to use
a database? A database should be used for just this kind of thing, so you
can focus on your application logic and not have to worry about storage
and retrieval. MySQL is very simple to set up and easy to use. But even
something like DB_File or the Storable class would be more helpful for
you.
-- Brett
http://www.chapelperilous.net/
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