Re: web application development question

On Friday, April 26, 2002, at 03:58 PM, Jason Wong wrote:

For those of you who write web applications (in any language), what do you recommend as the best way to store arbitrary atomic data for the web application? in other words, data that doesn't really need to be stored in a relational database, as it does not really relate to anything?

Stick it in an include file?

I'm sorry, I meant to be more clear -- although include files are great for storing data that will probably not change (but are now in a convenient include file in case they have to change), I was thinking of making this data updateable from within the application. So that my employer, who does not know a thing about PHP or MySQL, can change this information from the "administration" section of the site. Which is why I was thinking of using the database... ... well, I may just keep it in an include file, and if anyone ever needs to change the data, I'll explain in the documentation where the data should be changed. Thanks for the tips guys Erik ---- Erik Price Web Developer Temp Media Lab, H.H. Brown pricee@hhbrown.com