I am currently working on an existing website that lists products, there are currently a little over 500 products.
The website has a text file for every product and I want to make a search option, thinking of reading all the text files and create an xml document with the values once a day that can be searched.
The client indicated that they wanted to add products and is used to add them using the text files. There might be over 5000 products in the future so I think it’s best to do this with mysql. This means importing the current products and create a crud page for products.
Does anyone have experience with a PHP website that does not use MySQL? Is it possible to keep adding text files and just index them once a day even if it would mean having over 5000 products?
5000 seems like an amount that’s still managable to index with a daily cron job. As long as you don’t plan on searching them real-time, it should work. It’s not ideal, but it would work.