Templates and disk access time

[scottm]

What is faster? A template set up that stores the templates in a database or something like the templates class in PHPLIB?

What I would like to know is which is more efficient and server friendly?

I would like to incorperate a bulletin board in my site however the board uses templates stored in a db. And my site will us templates stored in template files ala PHPLIB.

Which method is better?

Scott

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In the case of templates, where you don't actually search for content inside the template, you can't beat the filesystem. The DB causes a lot of overhead that is usually compensated by increased functionality, but in this case you just want the file and that's what the filesystem was made for.

[toma42]

Like vincent says, use the file system. Just modify the bulletin board code to read from the fs rather than the db.

Here's a plug for some of my code that you may find useful:

Cache and Include extension for PHPLIB Templates
http://www.phpbuilder.com/snippet/detail.php?type=snippet&id=126

Tom