Hi Grant: The answer to your question depends on a lot of details. In most cases, the solution you have chosen is just fine. The real question you need to answer is, "Does your solution meet your needs?" If you can answer yes to this question, your solution is fine.
Your solution gives you a couple of advantages: 1. As you said, fewer hits against the database. 2. Faster downloads for your user. Static HTML pages download faster than a dynamic alternative. 3. Static pages will get crawled and added to search engines; sometimes dynamic pages won't. Some disadvantages: 1. You have a delayed update to your Web page. If a faculty member notices a critical error on a Web page, they must contact you or otherwise figure out how to trigger an update. 2. There are things you can do with a dynamic page that you cannot do with a static page. > Here's my QUESTION! Because some of the program information is large I don't > want to query the data base everytime do I? Like I said, your solution will probably work just fine, but it is probably unnecessary. You say the program information is large, but it would have to really REALLY large for it to make much difference. With a college of 1600 students, it does not sound like your Web site is going to have much traffic. Php and MySQL are pretty efficient. My advice is to test your assumptions; does retrieving the large Web pages from the database make much difference? Good luck, Matt Matthew P Baranowski Data Manager, Office of Educational Assessment University of Washington ----- Original Message ----- From: Grant Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2002 10:38 PM Subject: Data base driven web page idea - need help! > I need help. I am building a database for a small college that wants to be > able to update their program information for each department through an > web/gui program. > > I've decided to use, MYSQL, Apache, PHP and FreeBSD as the OS. (I built my > web page this way) > > Here's my QUESTION! Because some of the program information is large I don't > want to query the data base everytime do I? > > This would take up to many resources. So I've decided to write a program > that will take the information from the MYSQL tables and build static pages > every night and remove the old ones through a cron job? > > How does this sound? > > Is this standard practice, if not what would be a better way of doing this. > This college has about 1600 students? > > Thanks in advance, I plan on doing alot of planning and really apreciate > reading this email. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Before posting, please check: > http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) > http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) > > To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
