Please let me know if this is crazy! I am continually developing a site in Lasso and on their mailing list someone talked about how they had dispensed with the database backend altogether by using Lasso to read text files.
This idea intrigues me. The reason I was thinking about dispensing with the DB backend is because I have a very cranky database which is holding information that does not need to be "dynamic." I have a couple thousand product thumbnails (and this number increases by about 2000 every month) and all of their sizes are sitting in an FMP database. Then there are a hundred fifty thousand product descriptions, all sitting in the same FMP database, but they are rarely changed, so I could just update one "record" as needed rather than keeping the whole thing dynamic just to take care of those few times. This database crashes a lot. Now, the folks on the Lasso list claim that this kind of file-based DB thing is done all the time in Perl, and now that we have Perl on OS X, I wonder if I should try to develop this part of it in Perl rather than learn MySQL, which seems a lot harder, and I'm not running NASA over here. So please let me know if there are any good sites or resources about this, or if I'd better just go with MySQL or maybe something else entirely. (Oh yeah, I only know a tiny bit of Perl but I don't know any MySQL) TIA, Danny Arsenault Webmaster R & R Enterprises toll free phone...800 937-3880 toll free fax........888 790-2437 international phone.....011-603-471-0808 international fax..........011-603-471-2844 http://www.rrauction.com