[Resolved] need idea for simple Links Manament without database

[blanius]

I'd like to make a simple user maintained links list but with out database backend... I was thinking XML would be the best route but I've had trouble wrapping my head around it.

Any suggestions on an approach?

[ShawnK]

By no database do you mean, no flat file db either?

[mmilano]

you can make a text file with a link on each line:

example: links.txt

http://phpbuilder.com
[url]http://php.net[/url]
[url]http://codenewbie.com[/url]

now you can do cool things with this txt file with the file() function in php.

example: test.php

<?
$link_array = file("links.txt");

echo count($link_array) . " links found. <br><br>\n";

foreach($Link_array as $each){
  echo $each . "<br>\n";
}
?>

the file() function creates an array out of the file you specify. it puts each line of the text file into one element of the array.

hope this helps.

[blanius]

Getting them isn't the problem it's "maintaining" them. The server that this site is on doesn't include MySql. I'm thinking I may just do it as you suggest and the client will have to deal with hand editing the link file as text.