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Posted by hywel.jenkins on 11/02/58 11:43
daninbrum@hotmail.com wrote:
> Hywel Jenkins wrote:
> > erictucson@aol.com says...
> > > I'm building a site about retro and special edition Japanese video game
> > > consoles (www.japan-games.com). I'll have a page for each of the consoles.
> > > If you look at "Preview 3" you'll see a sample product page.
> > >
> > > There is sometimes debate about the release date, original price, limited
> > > quantities, etc of the older consoles.
> > >
> > > Or would a simple text box do the trick?
> >
> > No. You'll need some server-side processing to add the comment to the
> > page, either by re-writing vanilla HTML, or by having some server-side
> > process output database content to the browser. Look in to PHP with
> > MySQL as an answer.
> >
> > --
> >
> > Hywel
>
> Hywel,
>
> Isn't PHP/MySQL needlessly complex for this kind of thing?
Possibly, but it is scalable.
> We may be
> comfy arsing around with SQL, but if he's a newbie, I think Perl and
> text-files would be a FAR simpler way of achieving this - much better
> server support and dead simple code.
Hmm. Perhaps a compromise on PHP and a text file?
> Dan Vesma (long time been away - now is back in alt.html)
Dan Vesma - didn't you used to be famous!? I think about you every
time I drive past Web Tree Avenue is Hereford! How are things?
--
Hywel
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