//Simon
Jason Giangrande wrote:
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 millions, or even thousands of users, more like a few
hundred a day. If using files should not be a problem, I would much
rather use that method in this particular project.
Thanks again, Jason
On Fri, 2003-07-11 at 21:27, Michael Smith wrote:
Jason Giangrande wrote:
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
reasonable size. I ask this, because the only way I can seem to work
with the text file is to read the entire file in and alter it that way. Are there any ways to edit or remove one line of a text file without
having to read the entire file first? Would I be better off using a
database instead of a text file (keep in mind that I know nothing about
databases)?
Flat files are perfectly fine. If you include them with PHP there is almost no performance hit. However, you could use file() to put them in an array and then array_search to figure out which key and only use that ...
Question two: I've read in several books that html checkbox forms can pass multiple values to the server when more than one check box is selected if they have the same name. However, when I var_dump the $_POST variable that should contain them I only get one value. Anyone have any ideas why?
the name attribute for the checkboxes needs to be name="somevar[]" to be put in an array.
Regards, Jason Giangrande
Cheers, -Michael
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