[thelist] creating a small site
Hershel Robinson
hershel at galleryrobinson.com
Fri Jan 26 02:44:07 CST 2007
> my question - is using a mysql database way more than what's needed?
That's precisely what's needed.
> essentially, the site will show product images and info, listed by category,
> and sizes etc - so the page content would be dynamic. i assumed that a
> small database and some basic php would work, but i have been researching
> and it seems a lot of people just use php scripts to read a whole folder
> full of images to create the page content, without using any database at
> all. maybe this might be better but i don't know exactly where to start in
> that case. how do people decide when to switch on the database, as opposed
> to just a folder full of files?
I would not even consider this without a database. Furthermore unless
there is a good reason not to use a prefab shopping cart, like ZenCart,
XCart, E-Commerce for Drupal, VirtuMart for Joomla, etc. then I would
strongly recommend using one.
Hershel
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