[PHP] MySql or flat database using PHP ?

2001-08-18 Thread David Ovens
Before I start creating an Sql table/database, thought I would ask for advice first. I am creating a directory online, with urls information, links, email addresses etc etc. What do you think is best a MySql database or writing it to a file using fopen/fwrite (flat file) ??? Your thoughts

Re: [PHP] MySql or flat database using PHP ?

2001-08-18 Thread Andrew Libby
Dave, IMHO, a major consideration for Web apps is contention and s synchronization. If you intend to allow users to update data on in the app it becomes important to coordinate writes (with locking) so that no two users can write to the same (region) of the file at the same time. An RDBMS