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Originally Posted by Cele
Hello
If you want to use php and use files i would suggest you use *.db files as they can't be read from a browser.
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Well neither can XML files if you place them outside the document root, which is where they should be if they're even slightly secure. Also, what exactly do you mean by *.db files (I hope it's not some proprietry Winblows thingy
), I can call a text file something.db and then put XML in it
XML is a w3c standardised data modeling format which is not only incredibly versatile but also incredibly widespread. If you were to need a datafeed capability down the line you would probably just be able to cut out chunks of your DB and send them over to whoever as is with nothing more than a DTD or Schema and prehapse an XSLT for convenience.
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Originally Posted by Cele
I also suggest you encrypt all your data using the md5(); function.
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WHAT?!? The
md5 algorithm is a
one-way hashing algorithm NOT an encrypition algorithm. This means it's only usefull if you know what the data is and you just need some way of confirming it for security (like with a password). You cannot use md5 to hash all the data in your database (well you can, but it would render all your data useless).
Finally you start to talk sense
Seems to have a lot of tutorials there from all around the place, couldn't find any on flat file databases though?
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Originally Posted by Cele
You can also take a look around pixel2life.com for tutorials on how to do this project.
Cele
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XML Databases : A lot of the articles are regarding integrating XML with existing database systems but there are a couple of articles on actual XML databases. I would imagine you won't even need the kind of complexity a full Datatabase aplication would provide, it may suffice to have a collection of simple files and write your own app to query them. What sort of data are you needing to store and how much of it?
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