On Tue, 2008-05-06 at 13:42 -0400, tedd wrote: > At 10:14 AM -0400 5/6/08, Andrew Ballard wrote: > >On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 9:21 AM, tedd <tedd.sperling@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >I will respectfully (though strongly) disagree here, tedd. If you are > >building a guest book and all you need is a place to "store and > >retrieve stuff," store it in a file rather than a database. If you > >only have one form to collect and store information, this will be more > >than sufficient. > > > >If you are doing something more complex where you need to relate > >information (say, for example, forum members <-> forum topics <-> > >forum messages, or customers <-> orders <-> items, etc.) then you are > >far better off to think about what you need to store and plan your > >database first. Doing that will make your data model much better from > >the start, and you can also start planning out what your HTML pages > >need to be collecting as it relates to how the data is stored. > > > >Andrew > > Andrew: > > Well, you can certainly disagree -- we all do things differently. > What works for me, doesn't work for you and vise versa -- but that's > the way of things. > > I understand relational dB's and how to use them, but I don't think > the OP was talking about that, but rather getting something much more > simple up and running. > > Rob, who I respect greatly, said that 90 percent of what you are > doing should be decided before you start programming. But, I never > work that way either. > > I always jump right in and use the computer to design stuff. I never > resort to making a story-book layout or poster board work-up or > anything like that. I just don't work that way. I don't do much of that either unless I want to sort some complex things out that aren't easy to visualize in my head. When I say 90% of your DB should be designed before you start writing code... well, I usually thinking about the create statements (I guess some people might call those code), not drawing charts :) Cheers, Rob. -- http://www.interjinn.com Application and Templating Framework for PHP -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
