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MySQL vs XML for my new site


nloding

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I briefly touched on this in the PHP Help forum, but that wasn't the place, so I'm bringing the question here:

I will be setting up a small movie database for a video rental company I'm doing a site for.  It will only feature movies on the New Release wall.  There shouldn't be more than 100 entries at one time.  Each movie needs a cover picture, director, actor, rating, description, dvd features, etc. -- some could get long, especially with the required description.  I would rather do a database of some sort than a new page for every movie.

I'm trying to decide between MySQL or XML -- which, in your opinion, would be better?  Both are pretty much just as easily called and referenced -- I don't need a high end search, or tons of relations between entries (at most, they'll all belong to 1 extra genre category, like Horror or Action).  So MySQL might be a bit much to set up for the simplicity of what I need, but perhaps it's easiest to utilize in the site.

Any opinions??

--Nathan
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