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nsr81
08-17-2001, 08:40 AM
Hi everyone,

I'm working on www.al-iqbal.org these days. This site contains lots of poetry, which is to be shown in original Urdu script using an activeX plugin. This plugin stores all the info as ASCII characters(almost all).

My question is should I have separate html page for each poem as it will be primarily created. OR should I use PHP/mySQL to store the ascii info and then retrieve it to insert into a standard template page?

Which would be more efficient store HUGE quantities of ASCII text in mySQL or have separate pages for every poem?

NSR81

P.S. I had a discussion about this site in "Site Review" forum, In case you wanna take a look at what I have done so far.

reuben
08-17-2001, 10:19 AM
I don't know if one would be more effecient than the other. It is more a matter of which method seems easier to maintain.