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In my php application, I use a number of different values for different number dropdown which should be editable from backend but it is less frequently edited. Is it a better approach to use a table for each of those dropdowns, that would make number of tables to go huge. Or use files saving the dropdown values as serialized array. Is file access expensive than database access? I am seeking suggestions here.
File access would be less expensive than DB access although serialization and deserialization is rather expensive.
Why you just don’t store them in some specific PHP files, arrays would be the fastest.