Help Me!

Hi Netlanders I have just undertaken a web site construction project. It is a devshed like site that serves articles on various topics. I am using LAMP - Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP 4. I have a table that contains info about each article. I think I have three options...(or do I have more that I dont know of?!) 1. Store the article body in the database as a LONGTEXT or BLOB 2. Separate plain text file 3. Separate HTML formatted file No matter whether the file is in the database or as a separate file, should it be formatted? If it is plain text, how do I make distinctions between bold text and normal text? (Will fread() using PHP give me '\n' and other such characters too?) If it is HTML formatted, I would loose some control over the look and I would have to copy and paste the plain text article and make it a HTML file. What should I do? I know I have already asked this question and got some answers. But, when I proceeded with the project, I kept comming back to this one point. A long answer might help. Looking forward to your help. Regards Srinivasan Ranganathan _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.