rahulkadukar Posted December 13, 2010 Share Posted December 13, 2010 This is my website http://www.rahulkadukar.info/ As you can see I have the blue navigation bar on top and on mouse hover you can see a drop down menu. The contents of the drop down menu can change and I wanted to write a script that would populate the contents of the drop down menus. Which of these is a better option 1. Use JavaScript along with a text file and use JavaScript to populate the drop down 2. Use a SELECT in PHP to populate the drop down menu I am expecting that the 10 main columns would have at the most 20 entries each. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/221536-php-with-mysql-or-javascript-with-a-text-file/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
AbraCadaver Posted December 13, 2010 Share Posted December 13, 2010 For users that have JavaScript disabled, 2 would be the best option and would probably be much easier than 1. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/221536-php-with-mysql-or-javascript-with-a-text-file/#findComment-1146777 Share on other sites More sharing options...
nafetski Posted December 13, 2010 Share Posted December 13, 2010 The *best* solution would be using MySQL to store the navigation, and PHP to display it. You can still get the dropdown effect without javascript by using CSS...do an unordered list, with a nested menu. Then style li:hover to display the underlying menu items Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/221536-php-with-mysql-or-javascript-with-a-text-file/#findComment-1146913 Share on other sites More sharing options...
rahulkadukar Posted December 14, 2010 Author Share Posted December 14, 2010 I actually wanted to know which one is faster, so according to you guys, if I want to display dynamic content then a SELECT with MySQL is it faster than Javascript with text file ? Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/221536-php-with-mysql-or-javascript-with-a-text-file/#findComment-1147056 Share on other sites More sharing options...
nafetski Posted December 14, 2010 Share Posted December 14, 2010 Well I don't know why you would use javascript at all. A mysql query for something as simple as a menu might slow you down 30ms...but if you are building the menu (and don't want to gow ith a database) you would be better of going with a text file with PHP than javascript. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/221536-php-with-mysql-or-javascript-with-a-text-file/#findComment-1147196 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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