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Re: [PHP3] Simple calendar functions From: Michael A. Smith (msmith <email protected>)
Date: 03/18/99

At 11:00 AM 3/18/99 -0500, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:
>There is a misconception brewing here. It takes a lot more knowhow to use
>flatfiles than it does to use a database. I know plenty of people who
>could not read and parse a flatfile if their life depended on it who are
>happily using SQL databases.

This is true. When I have to quote jobs in PHP or Perl, I have to build in
extra time if flat-file access is required. You'd *think* it's easier, but
databases take care of a lot of the troubling issues with flat-file data
storage, and some of them (e.g. file locking) are complex issues.

Take a good look over whatever examples you can to get a working knowledge
of MySQL under PHP. [One thing that did slow me down a bit at first was
MySQl priveledges(sp?)] You'll thank yourself in the morning ;^) Good luck!

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Michael A. Smith | msmith <email protected>
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exertion of the imagination. Few media of creation are so flexible, so easy
to polish and rework, so readily capable of realizing grand conceptual
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