Originally posted by razmon
this would be overkill for the site I'm building.
This may be a false economy: there is plenty of overhead involved in maintaining content that is masked by using a DBMS: without one of those the extra maintenance would need to be handled by something else. Besides, it might be a small site now, but if it grows later - or you want to use the same technology for something larger - the transition could be painful.
As a compromise, a text-file-based DBMS might be convenient - one I know of is - hang on, I know Google has this ... ah - PHP-TxtDBb API.