Textual Database

Anon

Hello:

Does anyone have any ideas to create a small database in PHP without using MYSQL?

I would like to create a keyword database using PHP scripts, if possible.

Thanks!!

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It's a nice idea, but it's been tried and abandoned more than once. A file can only be written to by one script at a time, and while it's being written, no other scripts may read from it.

But more importantly, you'll have to write new code for every function. Basically you're re-inventing the wheel.

MySQL is very small and simple, and saves you month/years of development.

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mistcat

That being said there are a number of ways to do a v.small database using text files in php. One idea that springs to mind is to have the database be in a php include file that can be included whenever the search is done. It has the benefit of having only one file read as well, you just read the whole thing into ram, put it in an array and search that as required. Now this is pretty memory hungry, immensly so for anything but a small database, but its pretty easy to impliment, and it would be pretty funny... (grin) So if you wanted to go this route, its not impossible, as long as you aren't updating the database "file" very often.

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Simplest way is to just use serialize() on an array and save that to a file, then unserialize() that again to read it.

Don't expect to put any more than 100-200 record in there before performance get's below what any human would find acceptable....

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