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Why store messages in a file? [message #15279]

Mon, 08 December 2003 02:58

Squeebee

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Hi Ilia;

I have a question. I was trying to add a 'Latest Forum Post' heading to my index page, but when I took a look at the tables I realized that the message text is stored in a file. I was just wondering why this is? Is it faster to read the messages from a file rather than a text column in MySQL?

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Re: Why store messages in a file? [message #15280 is a reply to message #15279]

Mon, 08 December 2003 03:40

Ilia

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This question has been answered in great detail many times on the forum, please search the forum for the answer.

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Re: Why store messages in a file? [message #15281 is a reply to message #15279]

Mon, 08 December 2003 03:59

Squeebee

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Ok, speed as suspected. Can you point me in the direction of an existing function to read the text given the message ID? No sense re-inventing the wheel if one already exists.

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