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Proper storage of web content with PHP/MySQL
Posted by: Chuck Cusack
Date: August 10, 2005 03:50PM

Luckily for those reading this, my browser crashed half way through posting,
so you will now get the brief version:

I want to know how big is too big to store content in a database for use on a webpage, and what is the proper way to store large amounts of data in conjunction with a database if not in the database.

Example: How are posts in this (and other) forum stored? Are they stored as blob or longtext entries in a table, or are they stored in files that are referenced in a database?

Maybe this sounds like a dumb question, but I want to be sure I am not slowing down my pages by storing too much in the database. I currently use the filesystem as a sort of database, with directories serving as entries, and files with certain names as entries. I actually use a combination of the filesystem and database--sort fo a hybrid dynamic webpage. This actually works very well, but now I need to store relationships that are bidirectional, and files don't work so well, so I want to put it all in a database.

I would appreciate thoughts from experienced developers on this issue.

Thanks,

Chuck.

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