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[Anon]

What do you think the best way to make an archive for news is?

i was thinking of making a txt file with all the news for that month in it.. and naming it like sep2001.txt and just calling that up when it is needed..

is this a good way? are there better ways that you have found to be more effective?

[Anon]

it depends on the size of your site.

How many news items, how large, and how many users.

Mark

[Anon]

have ... 30 registered users.. about 2 new news post a day that are on average about 1 or 1.5 pages in length.

there are 2 categories for the news to go into. each categorie usualy gets 2 new posts a day.

however there is always the potential for growth. I have just added the feature that gave users the ability to submit news.

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I'd go for a database. Flatfiles are nice untill you actually use them.

[Anon]

Well... Vincent is the expert here but I would go with a flat file system.

I say this only because you are doing a small scale news system. Taking the time to enter everything you need into a database is a real pain in the butt compared to just dumping the news item into a directory named "2001/october"

You can set it up so that all it is is include("$var") where $var is the article(s) you want.

Gives you a little more control over searching as well.

The only problem is it can get to a point where the database is more efficient... but thats only as data grows.