ok - thanks for all the replies. it looks like there are no real
drawbacks and plently of advantages in using MySQL instead of text files,
so i'll do the next project with it. one more question - is there a
concrete file that has the database in mySQL? like a file that I could
download and
often i use text files at my data sources, delimted by the | symbol.
i simply delimit the fields of each line, then when i need to open them,
i open the text file, populate an array with each line, then explode the
fields for each to get the corresponding values. i use this method for
.
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From: Doug Parker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Saturday, September 21, 2002 7:26 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [PHP] MySQL vs. basic text file
often i use text files at my data sources, delimted by the | symbol.
i simply delimit the fields of each line, then when i need
Doug Parker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
i was wondering
if there is anything i'm not thinking of that perhaps would push me to
favor using php and mysql instead of the plain old text file.
It sounds like you're basically asking why one would want to use a
relational database. Standardization,
I was doing this too with good old AWK CGI scripts and text data files.
Once I imported the data into MySQL I said, Well this is not much
benefit. Then I started sorting. Then I accessed the information from a
different application. Then I wrote a maintenance application so my
customer could
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [PHP] MySQL vs. basic text file
often i use text files at my data sources, delimted by the | symbol.
i simply delimit the fields of each line, then when i need to open them,
i open the text file, populate an array with each line, then explode the
fields for each
Hi Doug,
on 22/09/02 9:25 AM, Doug Parker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
often i use text files at my data sources, delimted by the | symbol.
i simply delimit the fields of each line, then when i need to open them,
i open the text file, populate an array with each line, then explode the
fields
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