Database for a library

2008-07-04 Thread Khaled al-Horani
Hello, I'm building a web application for a library but I faced a problem ... NOTICE: This web app includes a feature that you can read the books online ... I have to save the books either in the database (mysql for sure) or on the hard disks ... but I preferred DB choice because of many

Re: Database for a library

2008-07-04 Thread kalin m
assuming this is for books/pages to be displayed on line... how about if you just keep just important stuff in mysql like chapter titles and how many pages the book has, author, edition, etc then you keep files for each page (or book) in the filesystem - xml, txt, etc - and you just make a