Question

I am doing a project (PHP) where i need to store about 4 different pieces of text about a person, each containing about 250 characters. there is currently no limit to the number times this must be done.

Would you suggest I store the 4 pieces of text in a database table and pull the text out of this, whenever a user enter the given persons page/profile, or should i rather make files out of them?

Which method would be the best in terms of speed, scalability etc.

Thanks

Answer 1

Databases are the perfect solution for what you want to do, and PHP has plenty of functions to work with them, so you don’t have to reinvent the wheel to store data in flat files.

Think, for instance, of the pain you’ll have in 6 months time when you’ll have to take all those files and add a column to each one of them…
With a DB you’d just have to run one very simple query.

So, essentially, use a DB.