[Athens-pm] RE: about my web site

[Philip Lees]

Antonis Faragitakis wrote:

> I believe that the website must connect to a db (like mysql) to keep
users/access > levels instead of flat db. what is your opinion about
that?! 

I'm replying to the list because maybe some other opinions could be
useful.

It depends how many users you expect.

I use mysql for the OpenECG members' database and for a few other
things. With Perl's DBI module I find it very easy to use and I'm quite
happy with it.

If you use DBI you could start out with a flat file and then move to
mysql if it becomes necessary. That's very easy with DBI if you're only
doing standard SQL stuff.

Philip
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