On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 12:42 PM, Ajai Khattri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 28 May 2008, Kristina Anderson wrote: > >> In the case of this project, there will potentially be several hundred >> PDFs but no more than that, at least for the foreseeable future...there >> are about 30 articles or less published per year by this magazine. >> >> So I think one static directory can work for us. > > Always plan to make it future-proof as much as you can. If that becomes > 100 per year, then what? > Then in the year 2108, she will have to make changes to the code.
In my experience, this type of future proofing buys you nothing. I have found that tons of other problems arise before overflow issues start to be a problem. I did a similar thing and I just put the files in a folder with the id. Bandwidth and diskspace became a problem long before a too many folder problem. The solution was to move everything to Amazon S3. S3 doesn't have folders and supports and unlimited number of objects. It turned out to be a blessing that I didn't do something fancy with the folder naming. Regards, John Campbell _______________________________________________ New York PHP Community Talk Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online http://www.nyphpcon.com Show Your Participation in New York PHP http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php
