Re: Using text files instead of a DB

On 12 Mar 01, at 15:30, Phillip Bow wrote: > It is absolutely possible though for anything big I would spring for > the db access. PHP shares a lot of the functionality that makes Perl a > good tool for this type of job so either language is a good choice. > For PHP you will want to check out the f-functions(fopen, fread, > fwrite), and some of the string manipulation functions(implode, > explode, and ereg/preg). Your best bet may be to grab a book that > covers string manipulation, and file handling(Wrox Professional PHP > programming does I know) to use as reference. So, there's nothing on the web that demonstrates text-file manipulation? OK. I was hoping for an example somewhere that I could dig into and learn from, but if I have to buy a book, well, I'm still trying to figure out if PHP is what I want to use or not. I'm much more comfortable with Cold Fusion, though no more experienced. CF is much more compatible with what I already know and I got the same results with CF in about 1/3 the time it took me in PHP. Unfortunately, CF would require a change of ISP, and I really don't want to change ISPs (that would be a horrible thing, having been with the same ISP since the beginning of 1996). I don't think I want to spend money on a book for a platform that I may discard. Maybe I can negotiate with the ISP (I've done it before in behalf of clients). -- David W. Fenton | http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates | http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc