Asperon Posted September 4, 2007 Share Posted September 4, 2007 for larger amounts of text ie. 12K characters and up would it be better to save them into a mediumtext in mysql or save them into a text file and just point to it from the database? They will be accessed often and there will be eventually hundreds of these files. as for 3K characters or so, would just saving them into a text variable be ok? or should similar method, like that of the above question be used? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asperon Posted September 4, 2007 Author Share Posted September 4, 2007 bump (its busy today) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asperon Posted September 4, 2007 Author Share Posted September 4, 2007 so......no ones knows? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheFilmGod Posted September 4, 2007 Share Posted September 4, 2007 well, I can't remember the limit but mysql has a limit of 56,000 characters or something by the option of "text". I don't know if 12 K will exceed the limit. Mysql is a very strong database. I was always afraid that it wouldn't be fast or able to process such data loads. But I was incorrect. Mysql can and will work just fine with 12 K texts. - It is all up to you. Is it easier to code with seperate files or not? If it was up to me, I would use mysql only. I hate working with flat files. This is the reason why mysql was created!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueSkyIS Posted September 4, 2007 Share Posted September 4, 2007 ^^^ I agree! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darkfreaks Posted September 4, 2007 Share Posted September 4, 2007 he needs 12 thousand characters? i know so far it can hold 8000 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darkfreaks Posted September 4, 2007 Share Posted September 4, 2007 Longtext holds up to 42K Mediumt Text holds up to 17K Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asperon Posted September 6, 2007 Author Share Posted September 6, 2007 thank you, I am going to use medium text, I just wasn't sure if I should save it in mysql or a txt file, this table is going to be holding short stories etc. users will submit them, I guess that I'll save them in mysql and will have to call them with htmlentities() in a <p> tag for viewing. Thank you for yourhelp Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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