Re: Upload and retrieval of stories?

> The database I will most likely use is MySQL. If I choose not to build > a web-based administrative interface at this stage, what are my > other options for uploading the data? Are there any good visual > administrative tools? What type of user is likely to be uploading the data? phpMyAdmin is a good Web-based administrative tool (nothing for you to build!)http://www.phpwizard.net/projects/phpMyAdmin/ Also, if you have Access, you can use that as a front end quite easily. Alternatively, you could write a simple Perl script to import the data to your db. --------------------------------------------------------- Conceive. Create. myClientManager.com. --------------------------------------------------------- - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steven Katz" <steven@idma.com> To: <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Friday, September 15, 2000 10:48 AM Subject: RE: [PHP] Upload and retrieval of stories? > Thanks for all of the help I've received. It sounds like storing > everything in the database might be the best option here, after all. > > The database I will most likely use is MySQL. If I choose not to build > a web-based administrative interface at this stage, what are my > other options for uploading the data? Are there any good visual > administrative tools? > > Also, if the entire story is contained within a single field of a > record, how can I break it up into multiple pages, such as after a > certain number of words? > > Steven > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Hans H. Anderson <me@hansanderson.com> > Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2000 4:38 PM > To: James Atkinson > Cc: Steven Katz; php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: Re: [PHP] Upload and retrieval of stories? > > > I *think* the textarea limit is 64k, but it's probably browser (maybe even > OS) dependent. > > Regardless, James' suggestion is probably the best. If you can have them > upload an unformatted version in plain text, you'll be able to do a lot > with it. Few novels I read take advantage of italics, bold, etc, so you > are probably okay there. > > Hans > > > On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, James Atkinson wrote: > > > A textarea should work, although I'm not sure what the > > limit on them is...but I'm sure its pretty big. > > > > Alternitivly you can have your users upload plain text files containing > the > > stories then open the needed files when you want to display the story. > > -- > Hans Anderson -=- me@hansanderson.com > http://www.hansanderson.com | PHP, SQL Databases, Flash 5 > Animation & > http://www.goofiness.com | Programming, Audio Production, > Brewmeister. > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net >