Posted by Colin McKinnon on 09/06/05 16:51

Smitro wrote:

> Hi, I'm in the middle of building a Content
> Management System to be used by out school. It has
> gotten to the stage where I'm going to have to
> start building admin pages so that others can be
> admins, So I'm going to have to rewrite several
> pages to cater for this. What I'm wondering is,
> what is the best way to store admin variables?
> Should I put them in a table in MySQL or in a flat
> file? Do you think that it would slow my server
> down conciderably if I added another 3 sql querys
> to every page and had 100 users on using the site
> at once?
>

I'm wondering why you need 3 queries to read in the config. Tried joins?
Polymorphism?

I'd really have to try to make this go slow, even on a Microsoft platform.
If it is a problem write some cacheing code in PHP.

C.

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