txt-based job posting app

[Anon]

I have a need to allow posting and editing and removal of job positions by a bank. I have a feeling I can do it without mySQL. Can it be done using plain text files?

[Anon]

Yes it can, but it's just making things more difficult that they need to be because
you'll have to write routines to handle queries and updates etc, where for MySQL that has already been done.

[Anon]

This is a good time to slip in a plug for Philip Greenspun's book, "Philip and Alex's Guide to Web Publishing," which you can buy from any of the online bookstores or read on his Web site here:

http://www.arsdigita.com/books/panda/

It's bright, funny, readable, and informative. Everybody posting here should read these chapters:

10.Sites that are really programs

11.Sites that are really databases

12.Database management systems

13.Interfacing a relational database to the Web

Philip is particularly enamored of AOLServer, an open-source server that allows a programmer to embed TCL in Web pages much in the same way that PHP lets you embed its scripting language. Anything that can be done with AOLServer and TCL can be done with Apache and PHP. (Or, for that matter, AOLServer and PHP.)

My favorite quote from the book: "The basic pricing strategy of database management system vendors is to hang the user up by his heels, see how much money falls out, take it all and then ask for another $50,000 for 'support'."

[Anon]

That looks like a fantastic book. I am going to try to spend a lot of time with it.

I think I am going to push for MySQL/PHP instead of the flat-file for this one. Spending too much time on it. And while I am sure it can be done, and I would enjoy the challenge, I am not at a level of programming ability that makes it possible for me to do it efficiently.

Thanks to all reply-ers. (all 2 of yuz)

bye-bye.