Douglass, thanks for the tips! As far as Mambo or Xoops - I wanted to create something a little different - but I WAS thinking of using Smarty before-hand... I just wasn't sure how I could really use it? I'm familiar with Smarty as far as I've played around with it a little... but I guess I wasn't sure how I could use it in this situation... are you saying that I should have Smarty hold the design - and use MySQL to populate the "Virtual Sites" with the Content stored in the DB?
It sounds like a great Idea and would probably be much more Resource friendly! This is why I asked for more info and gave more info - hoping NOT to get someone to code anything - but to give me Ideas on what would work the best. :) Thanks alot for the info Douglass! I'm going to search the web for more Tutorials on Smarty - hopefully I find something related to this! It'd probably make my life much easier if what I think you're saying is what you're actually saying lol On 9/12/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > clint lenard wrote: > > Hi guys, I'm fairly new to MySQL and I've searched for about a week looking > for an answer to this... > > I'm trying to design a Database that would hold HTML sites in the DB itself > and use PHP to call for the HTML file - which would be populated with > Content from another table in MySQL. I was told I could put HTML into > MySQL... so my main question would be: "is this possible?", "is this a BAD > thing?" but most of all... would this be resource intensive? > > Thanks for any answers! I hope I'm using this list correctly - I did search > Google and I've been reading an MySQL Manual for over a week now trying to > get it down 110%! > > Thanks, > > Clint > > > If you would like, you may check out these related technologies that do > what you are talking about already: > > www.mamboserver.com <http://www.mamboserver.com> > www.xoops.com <http://www.xoops.com> > > Also, if you use templates, it makes it easy to just keep the relevant > parts of the page, and then display them inside of a predefined template. > That way, you can change the template whenever you want, and all your pages > will change. If you store the part of the HTML that formats the text (color, > style etc) in the DB, this isn't possible. > > smarty.php.net <http://smarty.php.net> > > wasn't sure if you could use any of these, but, here's the info. > > -- > http://www.douglassdavis.com > >
