Hi,
I just found this forum on google, and was wondering if any of you guys would be able to answer my question. I have a php page that I use to display different items, for which the infos are all stored in a flat text database (mysql is not really an option right now for me). I was wondering the following:
Is it better to read from five different small files (less than a K each) on each page call to get the informations about my items, or is it better to store the infos for all my items (over 500) in one much bigger single file (over 125K) and read this file only and use the information I need from it?
What is more intensive on the system? Reading multiple small files or reading one big file? I need to know what could handle the most traffic between the two.
So what do you think I should do?
Thanks for your help🙂
