Re: Couple of questions form a PHP newbie

Thanks for your help guys. The checkboxes thing is working great. Michael, regarding using files instead of a database, in your opinion, eventually having a 10-20 MB text file isn't going to cause any server problems if more than a few people are accessing the site at a time? I'm not talking millions, or even thousands of users, more like a few hundred a day. If using files should not be a problem, I would much rather use that method in this particular project. Thanks again, Jason On Fri, 2003-07-11 at 21:27, Michael Smith wrote: > Jason Giangrande wrote: > > First question: I'm creating a custom content manager for a small site. > > It will basically be used to store short articles (several paragraphs > > each). Now my question is, is storing these to a text file going to > > work or am I going to have problems later on when the file gets to be a > > reasonable size. I ask this, because the only way I can seem to work > > with the text file is to read the entire file in and alter it that way. > > Are there any ways to edit or remove one line of a text file without > > having to read the entire file first? Would I be better off using a > > database instead of a text file (keep in mind that I know nothing about > > databases)? > > > > Flat files are perfectly fine. If you include them with PHP there is > almost no performance hit. However, you could use file() to put them in > an array and then array_search to figure out which key and only use that ... > > > Question two: I've read in several books that html checkbox forms can > > pass multiple values to the server when more than one check box is > > selected if they have the same name. However, when I var_dump the > > $_POST variable that should contain them I only get one value. Anyone > > have any ideas why? > > the name attribute for the checkboxes needs to be name="somevar[]" to be > put in an array. > > > > > > > Regards, > > Jason Giangrande > > > > Cheers, > -Michael > > > >