Re: Website Comments (PHP)

by Kathy Wheeler <kathyw(at)home.albury.net.au>

Date:	Tue, 25 Feb 2003 14:11:13 +1100
To:	hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org
References:	dcclient
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On Tuesday 25 February 2003 12:03, Jason wrote:
> though :) I would assume it would be a page similar to a bb
> administration page, based on sessions, and editing a SQL databse, or
> were you still going for a text database?

You could do either. I've done a number of PHP sites using flat text files 
(in most cases csv files), and others using a combination of flat files and 
MySQL databases. Both work.

As for admin interfaces, they are not that difficult. Password protection can 
also be done with either .htaccess or with the PHP header() function. The 
only thing that can be a pain on tightly secured systems is getting the 
ownership of flat files set so PHP can write to them. Off course if you have 
the required access priviledges that's not an issue.

Good luck,
KathyW.

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