template question

[crep]

I'm coding a programs where will be a lot of templates and I started to think how should I code it.

Registered users (can be thousands) can choose outlook from templates which administrator has created or create their own template. And here comes the dilemma: should I code the programs to use templates from database or from files?

And if the file based is best choice how should I build it? Something like this:

templates
|- users_own_templates
| |- user1
| |- user2
| |- user3
|- systems_own_template1
|- systems_own_template2

I hope someone figures out what I'm trying to tell 🙂

Thanks for your help

[abnfire]

i did the same thing with my project, only different is that i let other site admins to change the look for there site using my system on my server. anyway i used database to do that and i think file convention is little harder and in some points is not safe, but with database you can pull out data quickly and check put other fields you might need for the user to enter.