[thelist] CF: Request for Opinion

[.jeff]

frank,

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> From: Frank
>
> > and now, you dont have to lock, or hit the db, or any
> > of that yucky stuff.
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> I thought as much. One of the reasons however that I
> must use the database is because the variables are
> changeable by the client. (What, for example do they
> do when they change their phone number, or decide that
> they want to see more than 10 results per list, etc...)
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There's nothing that says you can't create an administrative tool that can read in the .cfm or xml file, provide the client with the means to edit it, and then save the contents back out to that dynamic file.  I've resorted to this for a few projects where the information was changing so rarely it didn't make sense to have a database hit (or a table with a single record, ugh).

just my 2c,

.jeff

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